Three Felonies A Day
Man with a conviction gets another one for calling the police to report a break in and they find his wife’s lawfully owned guns.
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January 8th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
This is what jury nullification is for — to tell the DA: “Go pound sand, you don’t get to pad your conviction rate at the cost of our freedom!”
January 8th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
The judge gutted the defense and would not allow one in which the defendant could argue effectively. The judge in essence “fixed” the trial.
Therefore the jury had no information upon which to base a nullification.
Add another name to the list of traitors headed up by Judge Jimm Larry Hendren.
January 8th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
You don’t seem to understand jury nullification.
January 8th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
They don’t have to justify nullification on anything. Once the case is in the juries hands they can do what they damn well please…or at least thats how is supposed to work.
January 8th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Thank you! I have hope for the future.
Jury nullification: if the law sucks (and this one obviously sucked), NOT GUILTY!
January 9th, 2010 at 4:55 am
I do understand jury nullification, but the jury needs to have access to the charges, the evidence, the law, and other specifics that would give them a reason to nullify. I am in favor of jury nullification, but I do expect it to be used only when government overreaches, and I would think most jurors would also. Therefore, if all they hear has already been “fixed” by the judge to guide them to his/her predetermined preferred verdict, without knowing the chicanery that took place en camera, they have no personal knowledge that allows people of good conscience to nullify.
The rub here is “people of good conscience”. I do not support nullification as an automatic response. unfortunately a judge can ‘fix’ a trial if he has people of “good conscience” on the jury and he can keep his rulings en camera unknown to them so that they are unaware of facts which could impact their decision.
We can’t repair this with automatic nullification, nor will it get better until we find some way to bring harm to judges who abuse the jury.
It is an unfortunate fact that most people are totally ignorant of almost everything legal before they are empaneled, and those who are not, have very little chance of surviving voir dire.