San Diego Mayor Urges Jury Nullification for MJ Dispensary Case

[AnotherMcIntosh]

39. "You dont get to choose what reasonable means." Says who?

The Sixth Amendment provides:

"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, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that you agree with the concept that an accused is not entitled to an impartial jury but must be one that is predisposed in favor of a conviction.

Also, unless I'm mistaken, no court since the Bushel's case since the 1670's has ever sought to hold a jury or a juror in contempt for failing to convict an accused. Operating a kangaroo court in this country, with a kangaroo jury, is contrary to due process of law.

Why even have a jury? Why not just have a prosecutor go before a judge and say, "This is the law"?

You say that "At the end of the trial the judge will give instructions to the jury." That is true. But we don't have a system where a judge can mandate a conviction by saying at the end of a trial, "This is the law. You must convict."

If someone previously said that to you, they have misrepresented our system of law. If that was how our system works, they could simply do away with the jury system. It would be a prosecutor's dream.