A government lawyer fears jurors voting their conscience. A government lawyer on Wednesday vigorously defended the prosecution of a man who urges jurors to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience, calling him a “significant threat’’ to the integrity of the judicial system. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Mermelstein argued before ... MORELarry Neumeister: Jury Nullification Making Noise In NY
A government lawyer fears jurors voting their conscience. A government lawyer on Wednesday vigorously defended the prosecution of a man who urges jurors to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience, calling him a “significant threat’’ to the integrity of the judicial system. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Mermelstein argued before ... MORE
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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr: The Overextended America
Rejecting the entitlement state for freedom and choice. We in America today live in a country circumscribed by entitlement policies devised by an America that has steadily been disappearing. Those policies established over a generation ago cannot possibly in mathematical or demographic terms support the America of the present much less the America of the ... MORE
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