[lbo-talk] Jury duty

[Matt]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:22:55PM -0600, John Thornton wrote:
> 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.

I'd vote non-guilty for any non-violent drug charge on principle.

Matt

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