Showing posts with label trial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trial. Show all posts

Jeff Woodburn: Understanding Jury Nullification

Juries can deliver a message about unpopular laws.      A New Orleans mayor famously warned federal officials after they closed down several well-established houses of prostitution that “you can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.” Well, in New Hampshire and around the country, that forecast may well be applied to       ... MORE

Support For Jury Nullification On Display In D.C.

by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.           Drivers traveling around the Washington, D.C. Superior Court may have noticed lit signs encouraging jury members to “nullify” laws they disagree with. The Montana-based Fully Informed Jury Association is behind the displays, which read: “Good jurors nullify bad laws” and “You have the right to ‘hang’ the    ... MORE

Jury Duty Gives Us Power To Decide The Law

by Jonathan Carp.       In Washington, D.C., Fully Informed Jury Association activist James Babb has placed informative billboards at Metro stations near the courts. These billboards tell passersby about jury nullification, the ancient right of jurors to judge both the facts and the law. The doctrine has a long and venerable history; the right of  ... MORE

DOJ Seeks To Protect Bernanke From Testitmony

Politicians have each other's back.     The government is trying to block questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a lawsuit by the former head of American International Group Inc. The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that high-ranking officials should not have to testify except in extraordinary     ...  MORE

The Bradley Manning Verdict: What You Should Know

by Marcy Wheeler.    “I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within [the military’s own databases], it could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.” That is — according to a statement Bradley       ... MORE

Black America's True Nemesis Is Not George Zimmerman

by Lloyd Marcus.     In the midst of all the racial hullabaloo stirred up by so-called advocates for black empowerment after the Zimmerman trail, guess who is really being harmed?  Answer: black America. All of you black pastors, black politicians, and black celebs who have joined Sharpton and the MSM's lynch mob to "get Zimmerman"     ... MORE

VIDEO: Trayvon Martin Case - The Lynching Of Journalism

Samuel Darrett: Avoid Judicial Intimidation

You can judge both the facts and the law.    While many opinions have been expressed about the jury acquitting Zimmerman, there is one aspect of the trial that has not been fully delineated, namely the judge's instruction to the jury. What the judge tells the jury usually determines the verdict. Sad to say many jurors, who are unaware of why     ... MORE

Did Zimmerman Prosecutor Try Reverse Jury Nullification?

Asked jury to disregard lack of evidence.      Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter for shooting Trayvon Martin. (Details of the case can be read here.) The scary part is that one of the prosecutors, John Guy, in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments asked the jurors to disregard the lack of evidence and the lack    ... MORE

Brent Bozell: America, Forever Racist?

Racism has great utility for the left.    The central criticism of the George Zimmerman trial is that there was one. It was simply impossible to convict him of anything beyond a reasonable doubt. The central criticism of the coverage of this trial was that there was any. How did this story merit consideration as national news? Why was the death of      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Is This Still America?

There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman.   The only question is whether the damage that has been done has been transient or irreparable. Legally speaking, Zimmerman has won his freedom. But he can still be sued in a civil case, and he will probably never be safe to live his life in peace, as he could have before    ... MORE

Roger L. Simon: Obama Big Loser In Zimmerman Trial

No accident race relations are going backwards.     Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget     ... MORE

Tax Dollars Spent To Organize Anti-Zimmerman Rallies

Look what Judicial Watch happened to find.     A conservative watchdog group accused the Justice Department of helping manage the "pressure campaign" last year against George Zimmerman in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, citing documents that show an obscure agency spent thousands assisting local demonstrations.  The   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Why Zimmerman Should Be Acquitted

Emotion should not obscure the evidence.     On a rainy night in February 2012 at a gated townhouse complex in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin stared at each other, and both perceived a threat. What followed is the focus of a murder trial that hinges on specific facts rather than the overarching, frequently        ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Black Education Tragedy

A dysfunctional system on trial.   As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter    ... MORE

VIDEO: Jury Nullifcation


How the citizen can protect individual rights.

Douglas French: Can Jury Slaves Say What's True?

Getting a taste of our jury system.   Until last week, I had managed all of my adult life to avoid jury duty. As a young adult in Topeka, Kan., I was never summoned. For my two decades living in Las Vegas, I was able to call in a couple times declaring economic hardship. Most of the time, I seemed to be off their radar screen. I always suspected it was  ... MORE

Conrad Black: Blind Justice

Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended.  An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian   ... MORE