Posted on 03/28/2011 4:46:25 PM PDT by neverdem
Prosecutors only care about one thing: obtaining a conviction. They would sell their own children down the river if it put another notch in the win column.
Jury nullification was in order.
Zoo Jersey should be expelled from the USA
I’d be hard pressed to speak to either the mother ever again.
Aitken remains a criminal thanks to the trial, and Crhistie remains a Rino blowhard.
In this day and age of "Nifonging" prosecutors and militarized police agencies, law abiding citizens have WAY more to fear from government and "law enforcement" than criminals do.
Why does Christie get a pass because he commuted the sentence when a full pardon was in order?
I feel for the mother; she clearly didn't plan to cause harm to her son.
But the fact is that anyone in New Jersey who wishes to do harm to another person has an easy path to take due to these laws.
Law abiding citizens in New Jersey ought to be very concerned about this and should do something before they find themselves caught up in the labyrinthine mess that constitutes Garden State gun regulations.
To me the single most important fact is that HE ASKED THE POLICE FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND FOLLOWED THEM~!!
Everything else is less important that that. If you can go to jail for doing what the police tell you to do, then this system needs armed insurrection.
And the judge refused to let the jury know? They turned a concientious law-abiding citizen into a criminal for political gain.
JAIL FOR THEM ALL - he was Nifong’ed.
I hope he sues their asses for several million dollars. And I hate lawsuits.
“Jury nullification was in order.”
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a system to educate potential jurors in jury nullification.
And some can’t understand why so many of us despise the pigs.
The taxpayers of N.J. don’t mind feeding and housing an innocent man for 7 years, not a bit,,,,,ya hear, not a bit. Ya got that??
“Putting Brian Aitken in prison wouldn’t have made New Jersey any safer.”
And given demographic realities, the more NJ gun owners who move out of the state, the less safe those who are left will be. The ultimate aim of the anti-gunners in NJ is a state where gun ownership is outlawed. It will become like Chicago, where the rate of firearm-related crime is high. But the clueless liberals who banned guns to be safer will never think that they were wrong. In my opinion these people have blood on their hands.
Not under the current system of selection of jurors. Both lawyers will reject you if you claim to know anything about this subject. There will be always plenty of low IQ candidates from which to select. Why not if they are "educating" them in public schools.
If an activist tries to educate jurors within the court building s/he may be arrested for "interfering" with them. Judges know more laws than a normal person does, and they can apply them on the spot. If some laws are unconstitutional ... the activist will be free to challenge them from behind the bars.
The reason is that the bosses of the current system of [in]justice want it this way, and they have all the power to enforce their preferences. Today the justice system is a world in itself, with its own High Priests, soldiers, and other servants. They have their own language, their own power, their own "sacred books," and they can imprison anyone at will - just as it happened in this story.
Getting the issue to go viral at a grass roots level will be the only thing that helps.
“Both lawyers will reject you if you claim to know anything about this subject.”
And I’m guessing that responses during voir dire are given under oath, so that anyone claiming no knowledge could be prosecuted for perjury.
>>“Both lawyers will reject you if you claim to know anything about this subject.”
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>And I’m guessing that responses during voir dire are given under oath, so that anyone claiming no knowledge could be prosecuted for perjury.
Perhaps; though I don’t think they ask directly about Jury Nullification: their greatest advantage is that [most] people do not know about it.
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