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To: Dog Gone
Unlike most federal agencies, the FEC has no power to prosecute anyone for violation of its laws. Absent a Consent Agreement, it must take any criminal case to a federal court. And, criminal courts have juries.

My last ditch defense is that at least one member of the jury will take the First Amendment more seriously than five Justices of the Supreme Court did. It's called jury nullification, a subject that many Freepers believe in.

John / Billybob

37 posted on 12/17/2003 4:22:06 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Okay, so you get jury nullification in this one case. That doesn't change the law, of course. Wouldn't you have to do this multiple times in multiple jurisdictions to prove to everyone that the American public won't convict on these charges?

Or is it your hope that it will be such a high-profile case that the general public will reverse its opinion on CFR and force Congress to repeal it?

38 posted on 12/17/2003 4:36:16 PM PST by Dog Gone
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