Citizens can learn and use jury power to thwart unjust prosecutions

“Note how the courts turned the state's hurdle of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ -- as was intended to be decided by an informed and empowered jury -- into a rigged hurdle against the defendants to prove that they ‘would've been likely to win’ -- as ‘determined’ allegedly in good faith by one or more ‘justices’ or judges,” my friend observed. “Thus changing the presumption of innocence to more of a presumption of guilt. How do 'justices' know what a jury would've done had it been a fair trial? Some kind of crystal ball?" [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes a “secret” power that must stay hidden in order to be used, and doesn't that just tell us everything we need to know about how far things have been allowed to degrade?