Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/06/06 17:32

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:59:15 GMT, "PTravel"
<ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:

>> A juror can vote however they want to and can't be coerced
>> into voting any specific way.

>Quite right. And a juror also takes an oath to follow the instructions of
>the judge when it comes to the law. When he violates that oath, he violates
>the law.

A juror can have reasonable doubt and still honor his oath.

>> What are you basing your belief on this being illegal?

>On the legal requirement that jurors follow the judge's instructions as to
>the law, as well as 16 years experience as a trial lawyer.

You are a statist shill. You are part of the problem.

Imagine a black who is arrested in 1950 for sitting in the front of a
bus. You are the trial lawyer. You would convict him because the "law"
says blacks must sit in the back of a bus.

>The peers make a factual judgment, only, i.e. did the accused engage in
>specific conduct or not. The peers do not make a legal, ethical or moral
>judgment as to whether a specific law should be enforced or not.

You are incorrect.

In the 1850s juries exonerated Northerners who aided runaway slaves.


--

"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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