[lbo-talk] Jury duty

[John Thornton]

A friend just finished jury duty in Federal court 
and had a difficult time reaching a verdict. It 
was a drug case involving transporting meth. The 
problem she had was that she felt the police lied 
and tampered with some of the evidence to 
strengthen their case but that they did so 
unnecessarily. She believed the defendant was 
shown to be guilty even without the questionable 
evidence. Her question was basically whether it 
was acceptable to find a defendant not guilty, in 
spite of believing in his guilt, in order to 
punish the police for lying and altering evidence? 
I'm curious what others think they would do in a 
similar situation.

John Thornton