Sussmann and the Bias of D.C. Juries

What is equally unsurprising is that the opposite is also true: Republicans don't stand a chance of acquittal in a politicized case brought to court in D.C. This was clearly demonstrated almost 50 years ago in the Watergate prosecutions, where - with two notable exceptions - every case tried in D.C. resulted in a conviction and every case tried outside in an acquittal.

As with the vacating of Sen. Ted Stevens' conviction decades later in 2008, nothing could be done to rectify his election loss - which, in Stevens' case, just happened to give Democrats the 60th vote necessary to overcome GOP filibusters.

The most prominent case to come to trial, of course, was the cover-up trial itself, which followed Nixon's resignation and President Ford's pardon.

If ever in the history of our country there was a criminal case which by law had to be transferred to another place for trial because of prejudicial pretrial publicity alone, this is that case.

Only two cases tried inside the District ended in acquittals: that of Ken Parkinson, mentioned above, and that of John Connally.

Dwayne Andreas, CEO of agribusiness giant Archer-Daniel-Midlands and the prominent Democrat who had secretly given $25,000 to Nixon's reelection campaign, was acquitted on June 12, 1974, in a Minneapolis trial, with most commentators suspecting this case, too, had been brought out of spite for his GOP donation.

The most instructive case is the prosecution of Frank DeMarco, Nixon's tax adviser.

https://spectator.org/sussmann-bias-d-c-juries/