Not Guilty: The Power of Nullification . . . .

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The jury made all the difference.

These seven Oregon protesters were found not guilty because a jury of their peers recognized the sincerity of their convictions, sympathized with the complaints against an overreaching government, and balanced the scales of justice using the only tools available to them: common sense, compassion and the power of the jury box.

Jury nullification works.

As law professor Ilya Somin explains, jury nullification is the practice by which a jury refuses to convict someone accused of a crime if they believe the "law in question is unjust or the punishment is excessive." According to former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, the doctrine of jury nullification is "premised on the idea that ordinary citizens, not government officials, should have the final say as to whether a person should be punished."

Imagine that: the world where the citizenry—not the government or its corporate controllers—actually calls the shots and determines what is just.

Jury nullification works.

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/11/john-w-whitehead/not-guilty-2/