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Saturday, July 08, 2006
Dumb stupid judge
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Hmm, lets see if I've got this straight.
It's a burden to show photo id to vote.
It's not a burden to:
1. be subjected to a background check
2. sign a 4473 under threat of perjury.
3. give two thumb prints
in order to exercise your 2A rights.
Time to gas up the B-52. - 7/8/06, 3:48 PM
- Francis W. Porretto said...
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Jury nullification isn't a liberal idea. It's a libertarian idea. Indeed, the entire concept of a jury is premised on the juror's absolute right to vote however he pleases, regardless of any evidence, law, or instruction. It makes the jury a bastion against unjust laws, as well as a shield against corrupt prosecutors and judges.
Not many people are aware that Prohibition was repealed largely because juries were refusing en masse to convict accused bootleggers and moonshiners, regardless of the laws against their trades. Nevertheless, it is so. - 7/8/06, 6:17 PM
- Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Liberal-tarians, I'd say. I'll yield on the point, but I first came across it as a juror myself sitting on a dead-to-rights drug possession trial. The jury deadlocked after a pasty faced, pot smoking Jimmy Carter juror explained jury nullification, and induced another juror (both women, btw)to join her. I found her argument ''I refuse to recognize that law,''fraught with dangerous consequences. It is also, of course, one of the gambits used to spring O.J. Simpson, and black juries have been lobbied hard on the issue. At any rate, it was here used to introduce my notion of Judicial Nullification ... also fraught with road hazards, but now I'm pissed off.
- 7/8/06, 6:36 PM
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Something has to be done torein in asshole judges like this.It is a struggle where they want to impose there will over the legislators trying to do the will of the people by inacting a law to stop voter fraud. This damn judge should be kicked off the bench.
- 7/9/06, 6:07 AM
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Jury nullification goes back a lot longer than Prohibition- probably the most noteworthy cases of this occurred during the 1850's, when Northern juries refused to endorse the Federal Fugitive Slave Law and return escaped slaves to the South. At bottom, jury nullification rests on freedom of conscience; the only thing that can be done to prevent that is to just impanel 12 people and have a directed verdict....and that brings things full circle to the current problem: activist judges in a Judiciary that is spinning out of control, increasingly arrogating to itself the functions of the other two branches of government.
- 7/9/06, 7:37 AM
- Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Well done. Stay after school for uce cream. :))
- 7/9/06, 11:20 AM