Jury Nullification Advocate Is Indicted

Now it has become illegal to inform people of their rights.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=4&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

The rights you have are the rights they tell you,you have.
Nothing more nothing less.

gotta sign for the ny slime rag to view .

Any way to grab the article without the necessity to create an account w/ NY Times?

Thanks!

That's why its important to make up tracts and stick them everywhere.

Tracts, like the Chick cartoon tracts, those small cheesy things get you curious. You can slip one out of your pocket, stick it someplace and someone else will slip it into their pocket.

Or a DVD. Or video CD. Sprinkle the tracts everywhere even if you're not on trial yourself.

Well crap. The link worked just fine when I posted it.

I wouldn't waste my time registering with the ministry of truth. Youall know the story...'dangerous, evil, crackpot, conspiracy nutcase tries to disrupt the justice system by intimidating jurors with extremist literature'.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=750267

Or go to home and search jury. It's the first story.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=750267

Or go to home and search jury. It's the first story. [/QB][/QUOTE]

Thanks for the link!

Since 2009, Mr. Heicklen has stood there and at courthouse entrances elsewhere and handed out pamphlets encouraging jurors to ignore the law if they disagree with it, and to render verdicts based on conscience.

That concept, called jury nullification, is highly controversial, and courts are hostile to it. But federal prosecutors have now taken the unusual step of having Mr. Heicklen indicted on a charge that his distributing of such pamphlets at the courthouse entrance violates a law against jury tampering.

Mr. Heicklen was arraigned on Friday in a somewhat contentious hearing before Judge Kimba M. Wood, who entered a not-guilty plea on Mr. Heicklen's behalf when he refused to say how he would plead. During the proceeding, Mr. Heicklen railed at the judge and the government, and called the indictment "a tissue of lies."

Mr. Heicklen insists that he never tries to influence specific jurors or cases, and instead gives his brochures to passers-by, hoping that jurors are among them.

But he feels his message must be getting out, or the government would not have brought charges against him.