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To: Alan Chapman
Maelstrom wasn't comparing the US to Nazi Germany. He was illustrating your position when taken to it's logical conclusion.

A distinction without a difference. My position is that juries do not determine the Constitutionality of laws. They determine the facts of a case and determine, based on those facts and the law, whether a defendant is guilty.

Allusions to the Holocaust are cheap theatrics, not logic.

115 posted on 05/16/2002 10:08:35 AM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
Allusions to the Holocaust...

...are SOP for the Chicken Little crowd.

119 posted on 05/16/2002 10:11:22 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: sinkspur
My position is that juries do not determine the Constitutionality of laws. They determine the facts of a case and determine, based on those facts and the law, whether a defendant is guilty.

If you were in Alabama in 1950 and sat on a jury for a case in which a black man was being tried under Jim Crow would you exercise nullification or not? If you were in Alabama in 1850 and sat on jury for a case in which a black man was being tried under the Fugitive Slave Act would you exercise nullification or not?

By the way, your position on juries contradicts over 100 years of Supreme Court cases, papers written by the founding fathers, and precedents set by centuries of jury trials before that.

125 posted on 05/16/2002 10:18:18 AM PDT by Alan Chapman
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