Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: PAR35; IncPen

“Jurors can always violate their oaths, if they have no moral integrity.”

You’re propounding one of the big lies of the powers that be that say there is no jury nullifacation when in fact there is. Jury nullifacation gives citizens a right to say in a jury trial that a law is wrong regardless of whether a person is guilty or not of breaking said law.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/nullification.html


29 posted on 10/10/2007 10:40:05 PM PDT by jwh_Denver ("Ok, you hens, it ought to be easy to write Hillary's next speech.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]


To: jwh_Denver
You’re propounding one of the big lies

You have twisted and mis-stated what I have said in order to call me a liar.

You certainly appear to have little enough integrity to ignore any oath you would take as a juror.

30 posted on 10/10/2007 10:43:35 PM PDT by PAR35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

To: jwh_Denver
Now you've done it. Notwithstanding an oath you might take to a judge, you have a responsibility as a citizen in some cases, to the integrity of the law, and to resist its perversion.

Article 23 of Maryland’s Constitution states:
In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact, except that the Court may pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. The right of trial by Jury of all issues of fact in civil proceedings in the several Courts of Law in this State, where the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of five thousand dollars, shall be inviolably preserved.

Art. 1, Sec. 19, of Indiana’s Constitution says:
In all criminal cases whatever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.

36 posted on 10/10/2007 10:52:29 PM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson