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Man grows pot. Admits it. Jury sends him home (Dublin, GA)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 27 July 18 | Bill Torpy

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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To: TexasGator

“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.


81 posted on 07/27/2018 7:06:31 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Drew68

Power of the Jury!


82 posted on 07/27/2018 7:08:37 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: donna

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.


83 posted on 07/27/2018 7:19:26 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: donna
Pot smokers vote for socialists.

Or...they vote Republican.

84 posted on 07/27/2018 7:35:11 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: Ken H

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%


85 posted on 07/27/2018 7:36:07 PM PDT by donna (Arizona senate: Kelli Ward supports President Trump. McSally is a RINO.)
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To: donna

So half of FL Trump voters are pot-smoking socialists?


86 posted on 07/27/2018 8:09:02 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

Probably not quite yet, but trending.


87 posted on 07/27/2018 8:15:07 PM PDT by donna (Arizona senate: Kelli Ward supports President Trump. McSally is a RINO.)
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To: donna

“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.


88 posted on 07/28/2018 2:16:02 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: donna

“You know some Trump supporters are socialists, too.”

Evidence? Not persuasive in the extreme otherwise.


89 posted on 07/28/2018 2:16:56 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Vigilanteman
The feline equivalent is catnip and our kitty really enjoys a pinch of it here and there. But she doesn't drive a car or vote either.

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?

90 posted on 07/28/2018 3:54:19 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I know I’m voting to nullify in any case where the FBI touched the evidence.

Yep. Let me get called to a jury where the FBI was involved.

91 posted on 07/28/2018 4:36:29 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: dinodino

Sure you may. But what percent of winos get drunk on their own home brew? I’d be surprised if it cracked 0.5%.


92 posted on 07/28/2018 5:43:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: willyd

That will happen when unicorns start pooping out Skittles.


93 posted on 07/28/2018 5:48:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: CodeToad

You said pot smokers are smarter than trump supporters


94 posted on 07/28/2018 10:21:26 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Drew68

“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.


95 posted on 07/29/2018 4:37:09 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Drew68
And not some liberal college town or big blue Atlanta but a Trump-supporting county at that.

As usual it shows that Trump supporters have the most sense.

96 posted on 07/29/2018 1:50:14 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Drew68
No, that was Abe Lincoln.

Quote:

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
― Abraham Lincoln

97 posted on 07/29/2018 2:12:32 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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