Guilty by their actions. Motivations bu association.

This is delightfully well put.

Their actions, in association here are at issue.

Next you’ll be telling us the shocking news that one of the parties used EMAIL!

Ha ha, nobody real uses youtube right, not like presidential addresses go out on youtube....

would you rather it phrased they are guilty and associated with the same religion? what's the gripe here?

Yes, actually, a bunch of people of the same religion (cult, really), university, and now, organized theft, are indeed guilty by association. I'm glad you see it too.

You seem to deeply misunderstand how juries work. It's an assortment of peoples for a reason.

When I was called up for jury duty last year, the foreman instructed the all of us jury candidates that we should only evaluate the what was presented in court, and not to make decisions based on whatever is on the nightly news that night, and especially not whatever gets posted about the case on social media. That's the foremans emphasis, not mine. This was said not once, but several times a day while the process worked it's way out.

So I might misunderstand juries (sorry...suppressing a laugh there...assortment of people...), but I'm going to go with the instructions from the guy who works in the courthouse (I suspect he knows something about how juries work, but you probably disagree), and not some critical thinking impaired drone who accepts YouTube screeds from anyone who makes money from uncritical people accepting whatever they drool out as The Truth. Hit like so they can keep you full of infotainment...er...Truthiness!

I know I'm in the minority around here, waiting for inconvenient 'facts' to be established and being skeptical about obviously biased sources before I declare a guilty verdict and break out the torches and pitchforks, but I just can't help it. The curse of thinking independently over tracking social media upvotes.