Posted on 07/01/2012 6:43:15 PM PDT by marktwain
Why the hell do they need to pass a law to legalize the constitutional?
Personally I think we need to revisit the 1895 supreme court decision that jurors “Need not be informed” of their rights. I would further back it up by requiring that all students must demonstrate proficiency in juror rights and duties before graduating.
I’m surprised the rat Lynch signed this.
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
JOHN ADAMS (1771): It’s not only ....(the juror’s) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge’s instruction....”if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong.”
U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has....”unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge.”
Get ready for “the law is the Law” crowd to chime in.
If I,for example,ever find myself on a jury in a case in which a "hate crime" charge is involved I,rejecting the basic validity of all such laws,will vote "not guilty" on *that* charge....and I'll try to convince my fellow jurors to do likewise.
...from government school.
Yep.
/8^)
Informed Jury alert, you too, can make a judge and prosecutor miserable.
btt
Yes. This NH law is nothing more than a proclamation. The jury can always vote its conscience. To think otherwise ignores the basic fact that no judge can order a juror to deliver a verdict of guilty or innocence. This is common sense, and the only thing keeping the Republic from once again enjoying basic freedom is KNOWLEDGE of the people. OMG.
.from government school.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The better expression is government owned and run socialist-entitlment, compulsory, and single-payer schooling.
There was a case in Detroit recently where I would have voted not guilty despite the fact that the ‘perp’ clearly stepped well over the line beyond our stand your ground law.
Tigh Croff came home from work to find 3 men breaking into his house for the 3rd time in a week. Croff gave chase and cornered one of them in an alley. The moron then chose to taunt Croff. Croff shot the man once in the chest and killed him.
There is no way in hell I would have ever voted to convict. Croff couldn’t go to work without his home being broken into. In my opinion he had every right to hunt down the scavenger who was threatening his livelihood.
BTW you didn’t hear about this one because there was no angle for the race baiters since Croff and his “victim” are both black.
Of course there are thousands of graduates who are unable to read. What about them?
All of these are clickable links pertaining to Jury Nullification at this site.
MEDIA COVERAGE #
In Jury Rooms, A Form of Civil Protest Grows 1999
LAURA KRIHO CASE (Acquitted Aug 2000) #
Voir Dire : A French Term for Jury Stacking - Mountain Media
Juror Rights are Dealt a Blow - Boulder Weekly
Jury Power & “Drug Peace”! - Amer. Anti-Prohibition League
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
FIJA :
The Fully Informed Jury Association
The Jury Rights Project
History of Jury Nullification
Juror’s Handbook
The Citizen’s Rulebook
Jury Nullification and the Rule of Law
Jury Nullification : The Top Secret Constitutional Right
An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)
CRFC - Jury Nullification
What Lawyers and Judges Won’t Tell You About Juries
Jury Nullification Bibliography
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Jury Nullification is a Tool for Chaos Foster’s Online, 2003 (archive.org)
South Dakota Rejects Jury Nullification Dec 2002
Jurors with Convictions, Freemarket.net
Trial By Jury, Clay S. Conrad, Cato Institute Dec 1998
What lawyers and judges won’t tell you about juries,
Progressive Review (1990)
LAURA KRIHO CASE (Acquitted Aug 2000) #
The Jury on Trial - Media Bypass, Dec 1996
Jury Rights Project - Kriho
ED ROSENTHAL CASE #
Jurors Denounce Their Own Verdict, Ann Harrison, AlterNet Feb 3, 2003
Compassion Challenged, Clay S. Conrad, Cato Institute Feb 2003
The Words of the Founding Fathers
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge’s instruction...
if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty
they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
— Alexander Hamilton, 1804
It is not only the juror’s right, but his duty to find the verdict
according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience,
though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
—John Adams, 1771
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man
by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson, 1789
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made
by men of their choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they
cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;
if they... undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows
what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow
— James Madison
http://www.erowid.org/freedom/courts/jury_nullification/jury_nullification.shtml
Imagine what would happen if jurors discovered that they can call and question witnesses or determine what is and isn’t admissible evidence for themselves.
The whole legal landscape would shift.
To grant it as a modified, statutory privilege to 14th Amendment corporate individuals who have no access to Constitutional rights.
Why else?
The key to understanding how this would allow patriots to recover the Republic is that you only need 1 in 12 to nullify. So, realistically if you could just get every so-called patriot educated.. you win. I don’t blame leftists for my loss of freedom and never have. I blame my ignorant brethren.
If ever called to jury duty and I wasn't to do it at the time I'll portray myself as a babe in the woods....someone who doesn't have any real opinion on anything.That,IMO,would maximize my chances of being chosen.If I don't want to serve my response to each question will be "fry them all". ;-)
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