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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:00 AM Original message |
Judge finds ‘increasing’ difficulty in seating marijuana juries |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. Potential Mont. jurors stage 'mutiny' in pot case |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Jury nullification |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The People speak |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 01:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
40. I was the first juror thrown out, on a crack-sale case. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:36 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I was once kicked out too |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. Here's a radical idea |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
36. Agree -- and we need to have Americans understand damage corporate crime does.... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
44. No, I think they exist so a small group of people can make money off |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
51. Some people enforcing those laws make a great deal of money |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. Good, kicked and recommended. |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Thanks for the Thanks, Uncle Joe!! |
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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. Good and rec. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. If you don't give a shit, you must acquit. Don't justify, just nullify. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. This is why it is important for people to get on jury service. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Excellent points, former9thward! Welcome |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. I agree, but I'm not going to lie during jury selection. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. you don't lie |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. Good, maybe the DA will stop prosecuting such cases. n/t |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. Kick - Nullify every jury against innocent drug users! |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's supposed to be a jury of the defendant's peers... |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. I wouldn't vote to convict for 1 oz or under |
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Dokkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. i wouldn't vote to convict unless violent activity is involved |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. BUT BUT BUT the cops make a point of being violent. Isn't violent activity always involved? |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Another excellent point in this thread, Dokkie. |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Good point.... |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
18. just give the Jury a little pot and they'll sit around for hours |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. +1 |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
19. Awwww ... such a pity. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
22. Legalize personal usage and free up the court system. |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
45. And cut the crap about "an ounce or less" |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. Speak out about being pro-legalization during Voir Dire and you'll never be selected to serve. |
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duhneece (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I spoke up and said I'd use my right to jury nullification |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:20 AM Response to Reply #23 |
42. I spoke up during voir dire 2 years ago in Austin. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
27. Now to see if the judge can add 2 and 2 together and get a clue. |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
28. the right to medicate your farm animals and yourself was considered |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:51 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Actually Coke was 1906... |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:26 AM Response to Reply #32 |
46. MJ Prohibition was brought on by big business |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:42 AM Response to Reply #46 |
52. You're correct, that was probably the REAL reason |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Yes - you are correct on that issue. Racism was used to turn the white public against drugs. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
29. Jury Nullification -- two good words to remember... |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
30. Nullification... |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. As another so rightly said--it's an unjust, racist motivated prohibition that should be REMOVED |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
33. That's what "automatic" sentences are for. |
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Can of Whoop-ass (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #33 |
48. That's what Pete Wilson (R. CA) |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
34. Is he admitting that is the goal, producing guilty decisions? |
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nikto (414 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
35. If summonsed to be a jurist on a pot case---LIE TO GET ON IT & then VOTE NOt GUILTY |
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nikto (414 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:59 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Marijuana possession... |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #35 |
47. That would be my advice |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
38. K&R n/t |
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20score (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
39. Every person who ever tried pot, every person who has a friend or family member who has tried pot, |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
43. Jury Nullification should become |
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Roy Rolling (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
49. Have they tried |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
50. Good news |
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