<DIV>I AM a lawyer, though I don't see that that is relevant here. It's not a matter of what's just. It's a matter of what the law is. People have different ideas about what is just. There are disagreementsa bout the law, too, but these are much more constrained, in part because we much maligned professioins are trained to follow rules and obey precedents. You might think that it's just to let people sell drugs. Other might think that drug dealers should be boiled alive. The place where we decide questions like that is called the legislature. Once the legislature settles it for the moment, we are all supposed to apply the rules they adopt on our behalf. That way we don't get, for example, the manifest injustice of one drug dealer walking because of a jury of people like you while his co-conspirator is boiled alive because the jury is of a different composition. If you don't like the law -- the rules the legislature adopts -- try to have them changed. This isn't rocket
science. It's elementary democracy. <BR><BR><B><I>R <rhisiart@charter.net></I></B> wrote:
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>i'll step aside and let the lawyers speak for themselves.</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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
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