A power for the people. Jury nullification does not exist and no jury or defendant has the right for an instruction regarding jury nullification. I am sure that some of you have just punched your monitors, or are
incensed at my hubris for speaking the truth. In libertarian circles,
some topics get so occluded with angst that we forget it is impossible ... MORE
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Matthew Christ: Jury Nullification Is A Moral Duty
A power for the people. Jury nullification does not exist and no jury or defendant has the right for an instruction regarding jury nullification. I am sure that some of you have just punched your monitors, or are
incensed at my hubris for speaking the truth. In libertarian circles,
some topics get so occluded with angst that we forget it is impossible ... MOREJury Trials Keep The Government Under Control
by Nathan Wente. Because justice is a result, not just a process. The 6th Amendment states: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury
of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed…” The
right to a jury trial should be, and was designed to be by our ... MOREDaniel Rivero: The FBI Convicted This Man Using Hair Analysis. Now We Know The Truth. It Was A Dog’s Hair.
What if the government wanted you convicted? For a while now, thanks in part to the reporting of the Washington
Post’s Spencer Hsu, it’s been known that something was not quite right
with the FBI’s hair forensics unit in the past. But only but only
recently has the FBI admitted that failings within the unit led to hundreds, maybe thousands ... MOREThomas Sowell: Anti-Trust Law And Lawlessness
Law should not be sacrificed to political expediency. We all make mistakes and some of us learn from them. What is even better is to learn from other people's mistakes, where they pay for those mistakes while we learn free of charge. Many Americans who say that we should learn from other people, especially Europeans, mean that ... MOREJury Nullification: A Concept Every American Should Learn
by Kevin Mathews. A juror can insist on justice. Did you know that, no matter the evidence, if a jury feels a law is unjust, it is permitted to “nullify” the law rather than finding someone guilty? Basically, jury nullification is a jury’s way of saying, “By the letter of the law, the defendant is guilty, but we also disagree with that law, so we ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Not Your Grandfather's FBI
Official lies and falsifications that kill innocents. Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents and technicians testify falsely ... MORECopyrights & Patents Have Become A Religion
by Tim Cushing. If you've read Techdirt for any length of time, you'll have noticed that intellectual property laws have been decoupled from logic
for several years now. Because the entities heavily-reliant on IP
protections (and who mostly serve as gatekeepers and middlemen, rather
than perform any creative work of their own) have trouble ... MOREEx-Drug Cop Says He Stole Cash, Planted Drugs Many Times
by MaryClaire Dale, AP. A disgraced ex-police officer testifying against his drug squad colleagues acknowledged Tuesday that he stole drug money, planted evidence and lied on police paperwork too many times to count. Jeffrey Walker told jurors that the Philadelphia Police Department drug squad targeted white "college-boy ... khaki-pants types" ... MOREJacob Sullum: Walter Scott Shooting Highlights Cops’ Contempt For The Citizen's Right to Record Police
Harassing camera-carrying bystanders needs to stop. Even before it became clear that Feidin Santana was witnessing what local authorities now describe as a murder, it took guts for him to record the police encounter that ended in Walter Scott's death. Santana, who was walking to work at a barbershop in North Charleston, South ... MORERonald Bailey: What Evidence Would Be Needed To Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?
Evidence does not mandate any particular policy. In 2005, I changed my mind about climate change: I concluded that the balance of the scientific evidence
showed that man-made global warming could likely pose a significant
problem for humanity by the end of this century. My new assessment did
not please a number of my friends, some of ... MORELeftists Priority: Raising Revenue Or Punishing Success?
by Daniel J. Mitchell. On the issue of so-called progressive taxation, our left-wing friends
have conflicting goals. Some of them want to maximize tax revenue in
order to finance ever-bigger government. But others are much more motivated by a desire to punish success. They want high tax rates on the “rich” even if the government collects less ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: In Defense of Drunk Sex
First, it was just "don't drink and drive." Is it acceptable to have drunk sex? Most people who aren't citizens of the Islamic State or followers of some frigid Christian group will answer with an emphatic: "Hell, yeah." Not only is it acceptable, they'll think; it's good, one of life's great pleasures, a rare moment when you can ditch the pesky rational ... MOREPublic Health Nannies Won't Admit: E-Cigs Save Lives
by Bill Godshall. In sharp contrast to the Trib's fear-mongering headlines and Adam Smeltz's news story “Western Pa. cancer specialists call for electronic cigarette crackdown”
, the scientific and empirical evidence indicates vaping is 99 percent
less hazardous than smoking cigarettes, is more effective for quitting
smoking than are FDA- ... MOREBehold: The Atheist Ten Non-Commandments
What do you think of these? What if, instead of climbing Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, Moses had turned to the Israelites and asked: Hey, what do you guys think we should do? Considering the Hebrews’ bad behavior in the Bible, what with the coveting of neighbors’ wives and murdering their own brothers, ... MORE
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