Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/06/06 17:29

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:10:27 GMT, "PTravel"
<ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:

>Jury nullification is not legal

That is incorrect.

>and any lawyer who tries to argue it will find himself sanctioned pretty quickly.

That does not make it illegal.

>The whole point of having juries is
>to have the determination whether certain conduct occured determined by
>members of the community in which it was alleged to occur. Juries make
>factual determinations, and never legal ones.

That is incorrect.

>Juries do not have the absolute word,

Who does?

>nor should they given
>the number of people who, evidently, believe that they are empowered to
>override the elected legislature.

Seig Heil!

>As I said, it is illegal to engage in jury nullication.

As I said, that is incorrect.

You have not produced one piece of direct evidence that supports that
claim.


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"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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