LegalEagle's Devin Stone Answers Criminal Law Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

I'm Devon Stone, practicing lawyer, adjunct law professor, and host of the Legal Eagle Law Channel, and I'm here today to answer your questions from the internet. This is Law Support, but it is not legal [Music] advice. A Reddit user asks, "Is there a chance with a jury trial Luigi gets a not-uilty verdict?" I would say in this

particular case regarding Luigi Manion, he has a better than average chance. Now, that chance is still very, very low given what seems like mountains of evidence. Right now, Mr. Mr. Manion is represented by a very capable criminal defense lawyer, Karen Freriedman Agnilo. So far, his attorneys have moved to exclude some of the evidence that was

found on his person when he was arrested in Pennsylvania. That includes a 3D printed gun, some writings in a notebook, as well as a fake ID. Mr. Manion got a lot of press and a lot of people seem to be upset with the state of healthcare in this country. As a result, it's possible the jury can do

something called nullification. That is, the jury could recognize that given the facts and the state of the law, this person is guilty of the crime that they are accused of, but they simply refuse to find them guilty and instead acquit them of the charge. Z gentleman asks, "Are public defenders actually bad at

their job or are the people they have to deal with just usually screwed?" Public defenders are doing some really, really thankless work. It's the prosecutors that get all the glory, putting away criminals, but it's the public defenders that are ensuring that everyone is represented. If you are accused of a crime, I think even most public

defenders would agree that most of the people that they represent are probably guilty of something, which means that there's probably going to be overwhelming evidence because prosecutors probably not going to want to go to trial unless they have certainty that they're going to stand a good chance of getting a conviction, which means that the public defenders,