<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>i'm not a lawyer.  but my experience is they hate it.  it's a threat.  especially to those lawyers who've become judges.  you see, the common human isn't smart enough to know what's just and what isn't without "professional" help.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>i'll step aside and let the lawyers speak for themselves.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jjohanning@igc.org href="mailto:jjohanning@igc.org">Jon Johanning</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:01 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Jury nullification (was: volume</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I was once rejected for jury duty in Philadelphia after I expounded a <BR>jury nullification position. I wasn't really trying to get myself <BR>excused; I really believed it. However, my dismissal may have been due <BR>simply to my very confused explanation of my views sounding like the <BR>ravings of a madman.<BR><BR>A question for the list's lawyers: what do they think of potential <BR>jurors who take such a position?<BR><BR><BR>On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 09:50  AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:<BR><BR>> Actually, I take jury duty seriously, and my experience so far is that<BR>> most people do as well.  In fact, I would like to serve on a drug case -<BR>> because it would give me an opportunity to refuse to convict under the<BR>> rubric of jury nullification of unjust or simply idiotic laws (such as<BR>> drug laws in the US).<BR><BR><BR><BR>Jon Johanning // <A href="mailto:jjohanning@igc.org">jjohanning@igc.org</A><BR>______________________________<BR>"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why are they <BR>poor, they called me a communist."<BR>    -Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, Propaganda and the Public <BR>Mind<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>