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  • Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’

    12/22/2010 8:01:24 PM PST · by Notary Sojac · 94 replies · 3+ views
    Billings (MT) Gazette ^ | 19 December 2010 | Gwen Florio
    A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court last week. Jurors – well, potential jurors – staged a revolt. They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana. Never mind that the defendant in question also faced a felony charge of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs. The tiny amount of marijuana police found while searching Touray Cornell’s home on April 23 became a huge issue for some members of the jury panel. No,...
  • US investigates why jet bomb suspect still had visa ...(Hello Janet, what say you ?)

    12/28/2009 9:42:44 AM PST · by IrishMike · 19 replies · 1,142+ views
    BBC ^ | Monday, 28 December 2009
    The US homeland security secretary has demanded to know how the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jet had a visa despite being on a watch list. "We all want to know the answer to that question," Janet Napolitano said. She also appeared to backtrack on a widely criticised assertion that the aviation security system had worked. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arrested after he allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on board a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Friday. A hearing before a federal judge in the city scheduled for Monday, at which prosecutors...