Posted on 03/11/2008 7:58:00 AM PDT by SmithL
Harbinger of August’s convention and November’s election...............
Jury nullification?
juror nullification
I predict we'll start seeing more of this with drug cases.
This week's Time magazine published a manifesto by the screenwriters for HBO's The Wire imploring jurors to take this stand.
A black woman does this, and there is a mistrial. No one even mentions that she could have done anything wrong, the judge dismisses it and attacks the press for even suggesting it.
If a white man had done this in the trial of a white person, in say, New Orleans, (the “chocolate city”), the white juror would be called racist, and face punishment under hate crimes.
I don’t think this is what Dr. King had in mind.
Just a mistrial.
Try again and oir dire should be a little more thorough.
I was just wondering the other day what ever became of the OJ juror’s?
FReepers are probably familiar with the classic motion picture “Twelve Angry Men” in which Henry Fonda is portrayed as a “heroic” holdout on a jury (despite several instances of his juror misconduct)
Every time I see it the question lingers — but what if the kid really did it?
Shouldn’t she have been jailed?
"Dr." King plagiarized his PhD dissertation.
And cheated on his wife ruthlessly.
And sided with the cause of Vietnamese communism.
And on and on and on...
Who knows what Dr. King really "had in mind"?
For anyone who cares, what you are seeing in this narcotics case is a harbinger of the social breakdown our society is about to experience as a result of 40 years of dysgenic fertility.
Prepare for the worst. And then some.
I’m really getting tired of dealing with these sullen, entitled, arrogant black women.
This thug will be re-arrested soon enough and the juror can be charged also because you know the drug dealer is going to pay this woman off. I can also see the justice system exacting some revenge on the juror by denying parole for her daughter any time soon.
He’ll just continue to run the ring from behind bars.
I wonder if this caused her, for the first time in her adult life, to be proud to be an American.
“”Dr.” King plagiarized his PhD dissertation.
And cheated on his wife ruthlessly.
And sided with the cause of Vietnamese communism.
And on and on and on...
Who knows what Dr. King really “had in mind”?
For anyone who cares, what you are seeing in this narcotics case is a harbinger of the social breakdown our society is about to experience as a result of 40 years of dysgenic fertility.
Prepare for the worst. And then some.”
People don't want to hear the TRUTH about this cheating scoundrel. I suppose the ELITES believe this is the best that a black man can achieve.
Why arent judges allowed to find them in contemp for this?
I think OJ’s jury should have been locked up for contempt and the judge direct a verdict of guilty for his first murder trial. Let them fight it on appeal, but Ito wasn’t anywhere close to having the cajones to do that.
Then the prosecution should have proved it. We really, really don't want to live in a country where you can be jailed or executed because someone thinks or wonders if you did something.
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