Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials."
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Under Georgia law, the names of grand jurors are included on indictments – a practice aimed at promoting transparency. However, this approach has come under scrutiny given the continuing threats following the recent indictment of Trump and 18 co-defendants.

Brave jurors.

They’re conscripts. Nobody asked them whether they’d like to die.

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The Cuuuuube
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Whatever brain dead piece of cartiledge thought we needed more transparency into citizen lives has made justice harder to achieve.

My suspicion is that’s part of the design

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