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Felony Charges for Handing Out Jury Nullification Fliers
Foundation for Economic Freedom ^ | Dec. 3, 2015 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 12/03/2015 1:28:38 PM PST by Twotone

Keith Eric Wood is being prosecuted for standing outside a Michigan courthouse and handing out a leaflet that discusses jury nullification.

According to Michigan authorities, his leafletting (1) constitutes felony “obstruction of justice," by "knowingly and intentionally giving the members of a ... jury pool a pamphlet that encouraged the jurors to violate their oaths and directly contradicted the instructions the jurors would be given thereby tainting the entire jury panel..."

(Excerpt) Read more at fee.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: jury; nullication
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To: webstersII

P.S. And giving out literature on it is protected by the 1st Amendment.


61 posted on 12/03/2015 6:45:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Thanks for the info.


62 posted on 12/03/2015 6:45:51 PM PST by webstersII
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To: Blood of Tyrants

‘A Time To Kill’


63 posted on 12/03/2015 6:58:29 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

What statute defines the requirement for an oath for a federal or state juror?


64 posted on 12/03/2015 9:50:57 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Twotone
Keith Eric Wood is being prosecuted for standing outside a Michigan courthouse and handing out a leaflet that discusses jury nullification.

Keith Wood should have posted those leaflets on adjacent utility poles. (At night).

65 posted on 12/04/2015 4:43:49 AM PST by Does so (Europeans better start becoming "Illegal Immigrants" to the USA. ==8-O)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS; VRWCarea51

How sad, to practice something for 35 years and still not get it right.


66 posted on 12/04/2015 5:46:11 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Most likely squeaked out an existence selling out the accused that needed a public defender, or sat in a Prosecutor’s office as an assistant and screwed over anyone they came across.

But Given the Peter Principle they may very well have been a Prosecutor for some back woods County in Podunk USA.


67 posted on 12/04/2015 7:26:19 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I bet hjs/her filed motions with the courts were a real interesting read.

‘I command the court...’


68 posted on 12/04/2015 7:28:25 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

If you were on a jury 160 years ago for someone on trial for violating the Fugitive Slave Law by refusing to return escaped “property” to its “owner”, and it was obvious the accused had in fact done that which he was accused of, would you vote to convict or acquit?


69 posted on 12/04/2015 5:52:32 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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