That concept, called jury nullification, is highly controversial, and courts are hostile to it. But federal prosecutors have now taken the unusual step of having Mr. Heicklen indicted on a charge that his distributing of such pamphlets at the courthouse entrance violates the law against jury tampering. He is to appear in court on Friday for a conference in his case. [More]Here's to the day when his persecutors will enjoy the benefits of a fully informed jury at their trial.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Null and Void
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Jury Nullification is a wonderful tool and I have passed out FIJA pamphlets myself .... but not at the court house. Although that is a great place to do so.
If more people understood what the real job of the juror was a lot of laws would go by the wayside .... but alas, most think you a crackpot.
Mr. Heicklen is definitely not tampering, he is attempting to educate. His freedoms of speech and expression are protected by the same Constitution that stands to protect my right to keep and bear arms.
Those who would deny Mr. Heicklen are the same people who would deny all our rights.
This will be an interesting case to watch as it going to give us all a message that will no doubt again confirm the fact that the feds don't really give an obese rodent's rectum about our rights.
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I was just picked for jury duty for the first time in my 43 years. Of all the dates mine is for April 1st. After I stopped laughing about the report date,I wasn't sure how to feel.
I was brought up in a time when it was considered important,as well as a Civic Duty. Now I think the whole dam system from top to bottom is broke,and other than "reporting", not sure what to do. I certainly know how i feel about it. Oh,and in Pa the Pay is 9 bucks a day......
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Googling "jury nullification quotes produces interesting results. The first result is from www.math.fsu.edu - the Florida State University Mathematics Department?
http://www.math.fsu.edu/~trogers/data/politics-legal/quotes_on_jury_authority.pdf
Chemists? Mathematicians? Defying logic, perhaps it would be better to only know what a judge tells you. But then again, maybe not.
Word verification: "inabl", as in "We are inabl to convict, your Honor".
Jury Nullification has been a part of English and American jurisprudence for 100s of years. I remember learning about it in grade school civics class back in the 1960s. Now that these monsters want to convict everyone of something, it has become a "questionable practice", a "contentious issue", a "controversial topic" by the very scum who put us in this mess and their lying sycophants in the media. Excuse me while I throw up.
Jessica A. Roth, a Cardozo law professor, said such activities could confuse and mislead jurors, since “the information he’s giving these people is likely to be in direct conflict with the instructions they will receive from a judge if they are jurors in a case.”
Well here's an idea - how about the judges stop lying to jurors?
NYC jury nullifies sullivan law for Florida man:
http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/02/robert-farago/nyc-jury-clears-fl-man-of-firearms-charges-for-glove-box-gun/
There is no registration in Florida, but the article is accurate otherwise.
I hope I will still have as big set of nads as this man when I'm 78 years old!
In the interest of supporting our allies in freedom and fighting the easy battle in an attempt to avert the horrible one, is there a way to lawfully fight these sorts of outrageous charges, perhaps by sending a short history of the jurist's duty to judge both the law and the facts to, for example, the prosecutor or the prosecutor's boss or anyone who can legally cut the prosecutor's horrific actions off at the knees?
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