Posted on 07/27/2018 2:59:37 PM PDT by Drew68
Javonnie McCoy was growing marijuana when the cops came to his Middle Georgia home. He was caught red-handed with it. Almost a pound of it, in fact. He admitted it to police, and later he looked jurors in the eye and said, yep, it was mine. I used it as medicine.
The jurors let him go. He was minding his own business and wasn’t hurting anybody, they reasoned. He just doesn’t belong in prison.
The jury’s decision earlier this month in Dublin, Ga., may have been due to a muddled prosecution of a muddy case. Or it may have been jury nullification, another case of citizens saying prosecutions for pot are not worth law enforcement’s time and effort — or the impact on otherwise law-abiding people’s lives.
It was the second such win in the Laurens County circuit for Atlanta attorney Catherine Bernard, a conservative Republican who’s also a staunch civil libertarian. Late last year, another client of hers ‘fessed up to a jury that he had sold a couple of nickel bags to an insistent undercover drug cop. That client was cut loose after just 18 minutes of deliberation.
And this is no liberal soft-on-crime region. Donald Trump won the county 2-1.
Bernard also helped get North Georgia authorities to drop charges against the parents of a 15-year-old whose parents allowed him to smoke pot to help combat severe seizures.
Ultimately, what may have kept McCoy out of an orange jumpsuit was that his lawyer urged the jury to empower themselves. She told them they are not potted plants or an unthinking arm of government. They, in fact, are the government. She read to the jury a section from the Georgia Constitution that says, “The jury shall be the judges of the law and the facts.”
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“You sure are about calling most of Trump supporters dumb.”
Is your reading comprehension so poor that you think I said that??
Trump supporters aren’t dumb, but you sure always seem to be.
Power of the Jury!
For medical mj => 6,496,157
So even if every single non-Trump voter voted in favor, that means 1.8M Trump voters supported it. However, Miami-Dade actually underperformed at 68% vs 71% statewide, and many Trump counties overperformed.
I’m not a statistician, but it looks like a majority of Trump voters voted yes.
Or...they vote Republican.
You know some Trump supporters are socialists, too. So, give or take, pot smokers do vote for socialists. And, the more pot they smoke, the more free stuff they expect to get.
FL pot vote 2016
Yes 6,518,919 71.32%
No 2,621,845 28.68%
So half of FL Trump voters are pot-smoking socialists?
Probably not quite yet, but trending.
“Pot smokers vote for socialists.”
This thankful medical marijuana patient in the state of Florida is a PROUD supporter of President Trump & the MAGA agenda.
Sucks to be ignorant.
“You know some Trump supporters are socialists, too.”
Evidence? Not persuasive in the extreme otherwise.
Or maybe a couple glasses of wine with dinner or a drink after.....what's your cat's inability to vote/drive have to do with it?
Yep. Let me get called to a jury where the FBI was involved.
Sure you may. But what percent of winos get drunk on their own home brew? I’d be surprised if it cracked 0.5%.
That will happen when unicorns start pooping out Skittles.
You said pot smokers are smarter than trump supporters
“Catherine Bernard, a conservative Republican who’s also a staunch civil libertarian”
In other words, a classic, traditional republican.
AND ... A very attractive, classy Southern Belle ... WITH spunk. Blonde, blue eyes, etc etc.
Laz would try, but she would kick him in the !@#$s.
FYI, Dublin County is *NOT* northern Georgia, at all.
As usual it shows that Trump supporters have the most sense.
Quote:
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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