Sentences with phrase «free jury nullification»

They will share free jury nullification information from the Fully Informed Jury Association on the public sidewalk adjacent to Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown, PA..

Since they were merely offering free jury nullification brochures to passersby, however, the volunteers were not soliciting.

This time an official threatened them with arrest if they didn't leave, suggesting they would be charged with disorderly conduct for peacefully offering free jury nullification literature to passersby.

Not exact matches

An integral part of our judicial system, jury nullification serves as one of the «checks and balances» required by a free society.

Jury nullification has been used throughout history to «nullify» unpopular and unjust laws, from laws against free speech to the Fugitive Slave Acts to Prohibition.

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

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The go - to example in favor of nullification is the fugitive slave law: when Northern juries refused to convict escaped slaves and set them free.

While FIJA does not give legal advice nor do we fund legal defenses, we do offer free training to activists to help them assess their own risks and implement their own plans to mitigate them so they can do jury nullification outreach with minimal risk to themselves.

More publicity for jury nullification - this time on News 13 in central Florida: Group fighting for free speech against Judge Belvin Perry Video of interview with James Cox is here.

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But whatever one's view happens to be on that subject, I would have thought that the idea of talking about (and that includes advocating) jury nullification would be a fairly simple matter of free speech.