“Just for the record, my deputies don’t wear masks,” Swank told a state legislative committee recently. “But once you pass this law that they can’t, I will not only allow them, but I will encourage them to do so, just to see what you do. “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.” There you go: “I don’t recognize your authority.” That’s the masked-up mentality, as bluntly put as can be.

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    Not entirely. If I’m on the jury, no amount of evidence is getting a conviction from me. They just have to survive long enough to get that far.

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      If a jury trial is even reached, and if the jury isn’t loaded. Attorneys do serious research on jurors before selection takes place.