Showing posts with label prosecute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prosecute. Show all posts
A Strategy To Preserve Liberty: Serve On A Jury
by Dave Benner. I have often heard friends and acquaintances complain when they are called to jury duty. It is easy to understand the common gripes made in response to this mandate. As a result of the obligation, people are often displaced from their jobs and other pursuits, often for long hours and for little compensation. What if a jury ... MOREJacob Sullum: Why Prosecutors Love Mandatory Minimums
Prosecutorial power hinders justice process. In 1996, when he was the U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia, Eric Holder urged the D.C.
Council to reinstate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent
drug offenses, which it had abolished in
1994. Two decades later, as an attorney general who has repeatedly
criticized "draconian" ... MOREWhy Every American Needs to Learn This Taboo Verdict
by Kevin Mathews. Learn about Jury Nullification. 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 ... MOREHawaii Law Allows Cops To Have Sex With Prostitutes
by Mike Bertha. The police lobbied hard. There is apparently an exemption in Hawaiian sex trafficking laws that allows for undercover police officers to have sex with prostitutes while on the job, in an effort to help them more effectively catch the bad guys, obviously. A new law would have done away with the exemption, but that new ... MOREEmployers Forced To Get IRS Permission For Layoffs
by Lennie Jarratt. President Obama has once again decided to change a law without Congress. This time he is delaying the employer Obamacare mandate until 2016 for companies with 50-99 employees. He also lowered the percentage of companies of 100 or more to have to offer 70% of it’s employees coverage instead of 95%. If you remember ... MOREJury 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 ... MOREAdvertising Jury Nullification Concerns Prosecutors
They fear good jurors may nullify bad laws. The illuminated billboard in the Judiciary Square Metro station near the F Street entrance was strategically placed. Prospective jurors who take the subway to D.C. Superior Court and exit near the National Building Museum see these words: “Good jurors nullify bad laws” and “You have the right to ... MORERadley Balko: This Week In Innocence
Bad cop costs men 17 years in prison. Two Washington state men will get $10.5 million after spending 17 years in prison for a rape they didn't commit. It's easy to dismiss these exoneration stories as the product of an
imperfect system that sometimes makes mistakes. But read past the
headline, and you'll see that they're often less the ... MOREThe Reasons To Doubt The Feds Respect For Pot Laws
by Jacob Sullum. Last week, nearly 10 months after voters in Colorado and Washington decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department finally responded. Its announcement, which took the form of a memo to U.S. attorneys from Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promised neither acceptance nor confrontation, saying only ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Double Jeopardy
Prosecutors display antipathy for Constitution. While the country processes the racial politics-inspired prosecution of George Zimmerman, which came to a conclusion last week, and as the calls to try him in federal court for the same events for which he was acquitted in a state court become louder each day, a case in upstate New York ... MORE
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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 ... MOREThomas 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 ... MOREJonathon Moseley: Right Of Self-Defense 1, Obama 0
Creepy crackers are not the problem. Destroying the Second Amendment and the people's right of self-defense was the real goal of the George Zimmerman prosecution. Liberals hoped to scare gun owners, regardless of the eventual verdict. Traumatizing and intimidating people from using a firearm to defend themselves were what this case ... MOREJacob 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 ... MOREObama's War Against The Free Press Gets Creepier
by J.D. Tuccille. Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the U.S. Department of Justice "investigation" of Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen isn't the intrusive tracking of his movements and contacts — although that's disturbing enough — but the basis for the criminal charges he may ultimately face. At its heart, the allegation ... MOREGarry Reed: Man Facing 81 Years Seeks Jury Nullification
Pot dealer punished for refusing to rat out friends. Today is Day One in Rich Paul's fight against legal prosecution for an act that the libertarians at CopBlock call "victimless actions." Paul, a political activist in New Hampshire, is charged with selling
marijuana and faces up to 81 years in jail on felony charges. Paul had a chance to get the ... MORE
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