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To: Virginia-American
I've never been on jury duty, but it is my understanding that you are required to decided guilt or innocence based on the evidence presented, not whether the accused violation was of a law you consider to be unconstitutional or not.

Is that part of the instruction given at the end of a trial? The judge tells you, "Oh, by the way, if you think that this law they've charged the defendant with violating is really not kosher, according to your interpretation of the Constitution, then by all means, acquit."

If that is the case, there would never have been any 12-0 decisions from a jury who must make a unanimous judgement, those jurors all having an individual interpretation of the law. When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found the law of the land to be in violation of his idea of just and right, he broke it and took the punishment. He was justified in his thoughts, but full well knew the consequences of his actions, why it was called civil DISobedience. His sacrifice ended up in getting the law changed by Constitutional method, not by having the law ignored.

27 posted on 06/05/2002 8:22:18 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: MississippiDeltaDawg
I've never been on jury duty, but it is my understanding that you are required to decided guilt or innocence based on the evidence presented, not whether the accused violation was of a law you consider to be unconstitutional or not.

No offense, but the reason you believe that is because you have been lied to. Every person has the common law right to judge not only guilt or innocence, but the fairness of the law. Courts try to hide this fact from all these days.

32 posted on 06/05/2002 8:30:39 AM PDT by FreeTally
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To: MississippiDeltaDawg
I've never been on jury duty, but it is my understanding that you are required to decided guilt or innocence based on the evidence presented, not whether the accused violation was of a law you consider to be unconstitutional or not.

Is that part of the instruction given at the end of a trial? The judge tells you, "Oh, by the way, if you think that this law they've charged the defendant with violating is really not kosher, according to your interpretation of the Constitution, then by all means, acquit."

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You are a prosecutors dream. -- And an innocent mans nightmare.
-- Jury nullification is our last ditch defense, our last check & balance against a legal system gone wild. -- Thats exactly why the system has tried so hard to suppress it, and to propogandize the public to believe like you.

36 posted on 06/05/2002 8:41:10 AM PDT by tpaine
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