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Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/06/06 17:34
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:22:17 GMT, "Mark Jones"
<noemail@mindspring.com> wrote:
>A conviction of a pot grower was recently overturned by a
>federal appeals court because a juror was told that she would
>get in trouble if she didn't follow the judges instructions exactly.
>Here is what one of the appeals court judges had to say:
>"Jurors cannot fairly determine the outcome of a case if they
>believe they will face 'trouble' for a conclusion they reach as
>jurors," said the opinion by Judge Betty Fletcher. "The threat
>of punishment works a coercive influence on the jury's
>independence."
Can you comment on how this affects the ruling in the Kriho case.
>I fully support the conclusion drawn by this federal appeals
>court. Jurors should have full immunity for anything they say
>while deciding a case, or else the system is doomed. If jurors
>need to be afraid of legal problems for doing their civic duty,
>even fewer people will be willing to serve.
We need more people like you.
--
"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow
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