To: cripplecreek
The Mob is disgusting. I think so too. The Law dictated the verdict. Now the Mob is after the Jury.
55 posted on
07/11/2011 6:29:55 AM PDT by
screaminsunshine
(Socialism...Easier said than done.)
To: screaminsunshine
She could have been caught in the act on camera and if the jury chose to acquit, that's the end of it.
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.
JOHN JAY (1794): The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
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."
SAMUEL CHASE (1804): The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1920): The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and the facts.
76 posted on
07/11/2011 6:42:39 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: screaminsunshine
The Mob is disgusting. I think so too. The Law dictated the verdict. Now the Mob is after the Jury.
The jury selected the verdict.
180 posted on
07/11/2011 7:14:42 AM PDT by
Girlene
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