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Can you add "jury nullification" to the mass emails also? That's what I tell my friends and family about.

jlgreco 13y ago
If I ever get "fuck you" money, I am going to entertain myself by renting billboard space around courtrooms urging jurors to Google "jury nullification". I figure there would probably be some entertaining fallout of some sort.
- rhizome 13y ago
  Depends on your definition of "entertainment," but you'll probably want to do your homework first, regardless: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=0
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    I'm familiar with that man. That more or less is my definition of entertainment. I think somebody with money and who did it right (billboards on major roads surrounding but not necessarily in front of the court house, never approaching individuals in any way) could get into some interesting legal battles. Do it right and it is plainly free speech; if I were to write/publish a book instead of design/rent billboards it would be very unambiguously legal. The entertainment comes in the form of seeing how they would try to stop me.
  - dllthomas 13y ago
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/indictment-against-julian-heicklen-jury-nullification-advocate-is-dismissed.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/indictment-agains...
- rollo_tommasi 13y ago
  Given how jury nullification was traditionally used, that fallout will probably also include accusations of virulent racism. I'm not sure a lot of more libertarian types who advocate for jury-nullification are fully aware that the reason it was suppressed was that it was for decades a mechanism to basically let white guys kills black guys consequence-free.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    This is one of the reasons "fuck you" money is necessary. Jury nullification is a tool, it is not itself racist, though those who have other reasons to oppose it of course paint it as such. With "fuck you" money, much of that sort of slander loses its teeth.
  - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
    I did not know that. I still stand by nullification as a possible solution to marijuana possession charges or the more egregious "excessive downloading" felonies. But it would be horrific to watch it used by twelve racists to free actual murderers :(

If I ever get "fuck you" money, I am going to entertain myself by renting billboard space around courtrooms urging jurors to Google "jury nullification". I figure there would probably be some entertaining fallout of some sort.

rhizome 13y ago
Depends on your definition of "entertainment," but you'll probably want to do your homework first, regardless: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=0
- jlgreco 13y ago
  I'm familiar with that man. That more or less is my definition of entertainment. I think somebody with money and who did it right (billboards on major roads surrounding but not necessarily in front of the court house, never approaching individuals in any way) could get into some interesting legal battles. Do it right and it is plainly free speech; if I were to write/publish a book instead of design/rent billboards it would be very unambiguously legal. The entertainment comes in the form of seeing how they would try to stop me.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/indictment-against-julian-heicklen-jury-nullification-advocate-is-dismissed.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/indictment-agains...
rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Given how jury nullification was traditionally used, that fallout will probably also include accusations of virulent racism. I'm not sure a lot of more libertarian types who advocate for jury-nullification are fully aware that the reason it was suppressed was that it was for decades a mechanism to basically let white guys kills black guys consequence-free.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  This is one of the reasons "fuck you" money is necessary. Jury nullification is a tool, it is not itself racist, though those who have other reasons to oppose it of course paint it as such. With "fuck you" money, much of that sort of slander loses its teeth.
- reginaldjcooper 13y ago
  I did not know that. I still stand by nullification as a possible solution to marijuana possession charges or the more egregious "excessive downloading" felonies. But it would be horrific to watch it used by twelve racists to free actual murderers :(