DeSantis offers asylum to holdout juror days after their own domestic violence record surfaces

…(cont) I'm sorry, let me try it from a different side, because the calendar isn't the only way in. This jury split eleven to one. That's on the record — the foreperson's note, the judge pulling the holdout aside on day seven to ask them, on the record, about their reasonable doubt. A whole country spent a week admiring the one. Then the court file turned up a different kind of "one" attached to that same person — one restraining order, the kind a court doesn't issue over a parking dispute. Does the word "asylum" appear anywhere in that court file, or only in the governor's statement about it?

I apologize, I know I've now brought this up twice, but there's a third side to it that bothers me more than the first two. The Daily Caller called what happened to this juror doxxing. The Federalist called it badgering. A Fox newsletter ran this case next to Kohberger and the Menendez brothers, filed under true crime, ripped fresh from the headlines. Four outlets, one week, and every one of them had a word ready for what the jury and the press supposedly did to this juror. How many of those same outlets had a word ready, that same week, for what a court file says they'd done to somebody else?

I'm sorry, I bring this up a fourth time, but I keep a folder in my garage toolbox — court dates, mostly, my brother-in-law's and mine — and I know what it takes to move a document like a restraining order anywhere: somebody has to pull it from the clerk's office, somebody has to read it, somebody has to decide whether it belongs in a statement about a smear campaign. That decision, in this case, got made the same week the file surfaced. I only bring the folder up because it's the only way I know how to measure the trip a piece of paper takes — and this one moved fast.

Excuse me — before you go. The story about the restraining order ran on a Thursday. The governor's offer of asylum ran on a Friday. Which came first — the story about their history, or the offer of asylum?