12.22.2011

Just shut up and keep hoping, mope

Undernews: Obama administration declares talking about jury nullification to be a crime

Paul Butler, NY Times - Earlier this year, prosecutors charged Julian P. Heicklen, a retired chemistry professor, with jury tampering because he stood outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan providing information about jury nullification to passers-by.…

The prosecutors who charged Mr. Heicklen said that “advocacy of jury nullification, directed as it is to jurors, would be both criminal and without constitutional protections no matter where it occurred.”…

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