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Get fucked, swine.
Some quotes from real people who were interviewed to be jurors in his original trial. Frankly, the fact that these people were removed from the jury proves there is no justice in america.
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The court: “The purpose of jury selection is to ensure fairness and impartiality in this case. If you think that you could not be fair and impartial, it is your duty to tell me. All right. Juror No 1.”
Juror No 1: “I’m aware of the defendant and I hate him.”
Benjamin Brafman, Shkreli’s lawyer: “I’m sorry.”
Juror No 1: “I think he’s a greedy little man.”
The court: “Jurors are obligated to decide the case based only on the evidence. Do you agree?”
Juror No 1: “I don’t know if I could. I wouldn’t want me on this jury.”
The court: “Juror No 1 is excused.”
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Juror No 47: “He’s the most hated man in America. In my opinion, he equates with Bernie Madoff with the drugs for pregnant women going from $15 to $750. My parents are in their 80s. They’re struggling to pay for their medication. My mother was telling me yesterday how my father’s cancer drug is $9,000 a month.”
The court: “The case is going to come before you on evidence that you must consider fairly and with an open mind.”
Juror No 47: “I would find that difficult.”
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Juror No 52: “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.”
Brafman: “So much for the presumption of innocence.”
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Juror No 144: “I heard through the news of how the defendant changed the price of a pill by up-selling it. I heard he bought an album from the Wu-Tang Clan for a million dollars.”
The court: “The question is, have you heard anything that would affect your ability to decide this case with an open mind? Can you do that?”
Juror No 144: “I don’t think I can because he kind of looks like a dick.”
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Juror No 59: “Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because – ”
The court: “OK. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty?”
Juror No 59: “It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people.”
The court: “All right. We are going to excuse you, sir.”
Juror No 59: “And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.”
Honestly I'm getting pretty sick of this innocent until proven guilty shit.
I don't even care if this makes me a bad person but this and people acting like anyone in :epstein:'s black book deserve to be considered innocent by default has started to radicalize me in a bad way.
I mean the justice system mainly goes after poor people and people of colour.
Yeah, I know. I just wish we had the exact opposite system where they mostly go after the rich.
Like we obviously have two different systems and I want them flipped.
Nice once they do that we'll able to just download it from the link to the file, which is the actual data contained in most NFTs and the transaction log is public
why do I remember like a couple years ago people on the "left" suddenly being like "no, he's based actually. He upped the drug prices as a symbolic gesture" or some bullshit? Am I making this up/misremembering? I could swear I remember people all of the sudden trying to explain why he's not obviously evil.
I thought it was “he sucks” and was being punished for being honest in a way that could have caused all the other phrama companies to admit they do the same thing and also be in trouble.
His defense should have been “if I’m guilty, then every ceo is guilty and should be punished. “ also they are all the same and should be punished.
From what I remember, there were some lip-service paid by some pharma companies like "we're going to look into and reconsider our pricing schemes" which of course was bullshit (mostly? I think some drug prices did get lowered?).
Yeah, I assumed as much. Skreli could have been a real wake up call for people, but the outrage really couldn't be sustained I guess.
You can just be banned from an entire industry? Now there's a power the courts should use more
Okay but what about the Wu Tang album.
He literally can sell that shit as an nft
bastard's face from the little thumbnail is looking a lot like that other reprehensible turd Dinesh D'souza, both extremely punchable
