Prosecutors will inevitably lose some cases in our jury system, but they should win the big ones, or confidence in an honest justice falters. That explains the surprise, if not the shock, when a federal jury on Friday failed to convict four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Prosecutors made national headlines in 2020 as alleged evidence that political polarization may have driven Americans to violent extremism. The charges fit a popular media narrative fed by Democrats that right-wing extremists are ready to commit terrorist attacks.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gretchen-whitmer-terror-verdicts-kidnapping-acquittal-barry-croft-adam-fox-brandon-caserta-daniel-harris-11649456313 The Whitmer Terror Verdicts – WSJ
