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Jurors said they couldn’t fairly judge Shkreli in court because he “looks like a d***"
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:34 pm
https://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/08/16/jurors_said_they_couldn_t_fairly_judge_martin_shkreli_in_court_because_he.html
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“He Looks Like a Dick”: The Transcript of Jurors Explaining Their Biases Toward Martin Shkreli Is a Gift
Self-care can take many forms, and it doesn’t have to involve funneling money toward your bath bomb collection. For instance, today, you can reclaim your time with a quick skim through a random sampling of Americans’ opinions on one Martin Shkreli.
Harper’s has published selections from the June transcript of voir dire in the fraud trial of the famously besmirked pharma bro, wherein prospective jurors were forced to reveal to a judge any biases that might prevent them from making a fair decision in Shkreli’s case. More than 200 people were dismissed from the pile of possible jury members because, it seems, Shkreli’s reputation as a smug jerkoff who price-gouges HIV and cancer patients preceded him. Their in-court explanations are positively healing to read.
“The only thing I’d be impartial about is what prison this guy goes to,” one juror declared. Said another: “I don’t like this person at all. I just can’t understand why he would be so stupid as to take an antibiotic which H.I.V. people need and jack it up five thousand percent. I would honestly, like, seriously like to go over there—” “Sir, thank you,” the judge interrupted, presumably to protect the potential juror from drawing charges of his own for threatening the defendant.
These hero almost-jurors prove that effective shade need not be complicated nor particularly creative. Some of their simplest phrases are their best. “I have total disdain for the man”; “I’m aware of the defendant and I hate him”—if these people weren’t standing before a judge, they would 100 percent be blowing on the tips of their nails, flipping their hair, and flouncing away before their interlocutors could utter another word. Everything they said—“he’s a greedy little man”; “he’s the most hated man in America”—is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but reading the comments as a whole feels even better than truth-telling. It feels like watching that inauguration Nazi-punching GIF over and over again, but without people fighting all over your Facebook wall about whether or not it was okay.
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The most honest juror self-disqualifications concern Shkreli’s face, which nine out of 10 faceologists* (*not a real medical specialty) agree is yearning to be knocked around. “I was looking yesterday in the newspaper and I saw the defendant,” one person said. “There was something about him. I can’t be fair. There was something that didn’t look right.” Yes, yes, that sounds right. Another juror explained that “when I walked in here today I looked at him, and in my head, that’s a snake—not knowing who he was—I just walked in and looked right at him and that’s a snake.” Perceptive!
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:36 pm to Rakim
He's just the fall guy for some behind the scenes mobster or other illegal activity.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:38 pm to Rakim
I told my lawyer a suit and tie was stupid.
Let me be me.
Let me be me.
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:39 pm to Rakim
I'll remember this for the next time I get jury duty
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:48 pm to Koach K
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He's just the fall guy for some behind the scenes mobster or other illegal activity.
No he isn't. He's a crooked arse douchebag.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:52 pm to Rakim
i don't get why people are always talking about the way he looks. he looks pretty normal to me.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:02 pm to upgrayedd
Correct. They aren't wrong but my assumptions are that most people don't like participating in their civic duty as a juror and will say what it takes to get out of it.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:02 pm to Rakim
The smirk on his face makes him appear as if he thinks he is untouchable or thinks he is the smartest person in the world.
He is intelligent, but obviously he isn't smart enough to use his intelligence for something that would keep him out of legal trouble so his IQ score means nothing while he is in jail.
He has some traits of a psychopath. He is intelligent, but it appears as if he has no moral compass. The smirk makes him appear as if he has no empathy. frick him.
He is intelligent, but obviously he isn't smart enough to use his intelligence for something that would keep him out of legal trouble so his IQ score means nothing while he is in jail.
He has some traits of a psychopath. He is intelligent, but it appears as if he has no moral compass. The smirk makes him appear as if he has no empathy. frick him.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:05 pm to USMCTiger03
Most punchable face ever?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:09 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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I don't get why people are always talking about the way he looks. he looks pretty normal to me.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:20 pm to Rakim
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This post was edited on 11/25/17 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:27 pm to 504Voodoo
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Most punchable face ever?
No a close second to:
Posted on 8/17/17 at 12:05 am to tketaco
The faces in those pics in OP don't do him justice. Go look at google images and you might break your Phone or PC.
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