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being called for jury duty, what to do?

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I was on a grand jury a few years ago. I'm SOOOO glad I participated. By the end of my stint I was handing out grand jury reform propaganda.

Seriously though. I think I made a difference. There was one case in which a man had been found sleeping in the bed of an old broken down pick up on a farm, and when the police rousted him, they of course searched him and found a dime of crack. The man said it wasn't his he didn't do drugs.... duh. So the cops charged him with posession with intent to distribute. Since he didn't do drugs, he obviously intended to sell it.
Everyone wanted to string the guy up. They wanted us to vote to send the case to trial with those charges. I argued with my fellow grand jurors that this was a trumped up charge. They still went through with it, but I changed a few minds.

Go. You could help someone. Plus you'll be able to say you were on a jury.
 
Aloneits, I don't know where you live but in the US a jurror can vote any way they want. You can vote as if the government has no right to judge anyone. I don't think you even have to have a good reason for voting a certain way.

whatever case comes up I'll likely just vote on my personal belief rather then the law. I know this isn't the way juries are supposed to work but I didn't ask to be called in the first place.
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universecannon said:
i hate to break it to you..but..the feds are the most viscous gang of thugs you can imagine
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I think you're being naive on how bad people can get. Western governments are just evil, but most of the non-western governments or criminal gangs are a multitude of that in evilness.

It's unfortunate but we're quite a stinking species, our intellect has grown faster than our moral capacity for restraining it.
 
Flex Your Rights - Jury Duty

Fully Informed Jury Association

Flex Your Rights - Jury Duty said:
... obscure Supreme Court decision in 1895, the Court ruled in Sparf v. US that juries do have the power to nullify the law. But the ruling also stated that judges are not required to inform the jury of this. As a result, judges and prosecutors have exploited Sparf to forbid any mention of jury nullification from the courtroom.
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Note: courtroom is not the deliberation room.
 
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