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Title: Snowden: ‘I would return to US if fair trial guaranteed’
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URL Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/333162-new-hampshire-snowden-trial/
Published: Feb 21, 2016
Author: staff
Post Date: 2016-02-21 10:24:08 by Ada
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Views: 269
Comments: 19

Contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden told the New Hampshire Liberty Forum on Saturday he would return to America if the government guaranteed him a fair trial and allowed the jury to distinguish between “right and wrong.” More than 400 people gathered in a conference room at the Radisson Center in New Hampshire on Saturday to hear former NSA contractor speak via Skype from Russia.

Snowden announced he would return to the United States if a fair trial were conducted.

“I’ve told the government I would return if they would guarantee a fair trial where I can make a public interest defense of why this was done and allow a jury to decide,” Snowden was quoted by ABC as saying. The organizers of the event did not allow the media to video record his remarks.

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#16. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

No one can stack a jury like federal court clerks.

"First, we're gonna try ya, then we're gonna hang ya!"

Federal juries often consist of a majority of former jurors that convicted defendants, and they likely feel that "you wouldn't be here if you weren't guilty". The "inertia of the majority and the foreman" can be relied upon to sway jurors new to the experience.

And the obligation is to convict lest they "do a disservice to the govt." Most if not all jurors who exonerate aren't called again.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2016-02-22   3:21:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#18. To: HOUNDDAWG (#16)

. The "inertia of the majority and the foreman" can be relied upon to sway jurors new to the experience.

I recall that Terry Nichols jury was deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal until one of the jurors, an engineer who should not have been allowed, swayed the other 11 to change their vote.

Ada  posted on  2016-02-22 08:14:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

And the obligation is to convict lest they "do a disservice to the govt." Most if not all jurors who exonerate aren't called again.

Well said. And since the NSA has every email you've ever sent, and knows every person you've ever called on your cell phone (and whom they all called), the web sites you've visited, the google searches you've made, every credit card or debit card purchase, etc. -- you and I won't even be called for jury duty in the first place.

In my district, the feds use a 17 page questionnaire to pre-screen potential jurors. What organizations do you or have you belonged to? What bumper stickers do you have on your car? Etc.

The best criminal lawyer in my state confirmed everything you just said when he told me, "Juries like to convict."

Jurors feel it is their duty to the government to ruin the life of anyone whom the government has accused of a crime. Christians are the worst; they believe it is their duty to God to do so.

StraitGate  posted on  2016-02-22 08:19:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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