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 ...
P.S. And giving out literature on it is protected by the 1st Amendment.
Thanks for the info.
‘A Time To Kill’
What statute defines the requirement for an oath for a federal or state juror?
Keith Wood should have posted those leaflets on adjacent utility poles. (At night).
How sad, to practice something for 35 years and still not get it right.
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.
I bet hjs/her filed motions with the courts were a real interesting read.
‘I command the court...’
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?
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