Topic: WHAT POLICE STATE? Father of 8 Sentenced to Jail for Distributing ... (Read 224 times)
November 23, 2017, 05:55:15 AM
Police state nowadays sound more like a diminutive of the real - much worse - situation...
July 28, 2017, 12:58:34 PM
Ahhh, it seems governments are becoming more and more authoritarian these days, regardless of the branch. Any news if the guy already got out of jail? That penalty is just stupid, the people who received the pamphlet could might as well have found the content online. Would sites carrying the information be taken down? Would people looking this up be locked up in jail? Just plain stupidity.
July 27, 2017, 08:12:22 PM
In most of the countries, the judges think that they are even above the gods. It is not possible to criticize them. If you say anything against them, then you will be sent to the prisons. And here in India, judiciary is the most corrupt branch out there.
July 27, 2017, 05:29:56 PM
WHAT POLICE STATE? Father of 8 Sentenced to Jail for Distributing Jury Nullificaiton Pamphlets
Read more and click the links at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/07/27/what-police-state-father-of-8-sentenced-to-jail-for-distributing-jury-nullificaiton-pamphlets/.
A former pastor from Michigan discovered the hard way informing people of their rights under the law as jurors doesn't sit well with the U.S. government when a judge sentenced him Friday to eight weekends in jail, six months of probation, and fines — all for passing out pamphlets discussing jury nullification.
Keith Wood contends passing out the information is well within his constitutional rights to inform potential and selected jurors that, enshrined in the Bill of Rights lies the potent ability to find a defendant not guilty if the law in question is unjust, flawed, or otherwise untenable — even if the accused indeed technically violated.
Jury nullification thus arguably acts as citizens' access to checks and balances: When legislators craft worthless, harmful, inequitable, or just plain 'bad' laws, jurors can, in essence, refuse to enforce any punitive measures — refusing to find a person guilty of breaking a law that never should have been inked into the books.
This tool shines most prominently when used consistently to thwart oppressive policy. Illustrative of this principle is continued federal prohibition of cannabis and transformed public sentiment, as anti-marijuana propaganda falls apart at its politicized roots for the incarceration nightmare it created — among many others. Jurors faced with a choice in guilt of sending a nonviolent drug offender to prison might instead find the concept of incarcerating this petty 'criminal' who had done no harm to another unethical and ill-conceived — and choose instead a finding of not guilty to compensate for the unjust law.
Keith Wood contends passing out the information is well within his constitutional rights to inform potential and selected jurors that, enshrined in the Bill of Rights lies the potent ability to find a defendant not guilty if the law in question is unjust, flawed, or otherwise untenable — even if the accused indeed technically violated.
Jury nullification thus arguably acts as citizens' access to checks and balances: When legislators craft worthless, harmful, inequitable, or just plain 'bad' laws, jurors can, in essence, refuse to enforce any punitive measures — refusing to find a person guilty of breaking a law that never should have been inked into the books.
This tool shines most prominently when used consistently to thwart oppressive policy. Illustrative of this principle is continued federal prohibition of cannabis and transformed public sentiment, as anti-marijuana propaganda falls apart at its politicized roots for the incarceration nightmare it created — among many others. Jurors faced with a choice in guilt of sending a nonviolent drug offender to prison might instead find the concept of incarcerating this petty 'criminal' who had done no harm to another unethical and ill-conceived — and choose instead a finding of not guilty to compensate for the unjust law.
Read more and click the links at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/07/27/what-police-state-father-of-8-sentenced-to-jail-for-distributing-jury-nullificaiton-pamphlets/.
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