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Title: Michigan Activist Sentenced to Jail for Distributing Pamphlet About Juror Rights
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URL Source: http://www.govtslaves.com/michigan- ... g-pamphlet-about-juror-rights/
Published: Jul 22, 2017
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2017-07-22 14:38:19 by Horse
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Today a Michigan judge sentenced a local activist to eight weekends in jail, plus $545 in fines, 120 hours of community service, and six months of probation, for passing out jury nullification pamphlets in front of the Mecosta County courthouse. Keith Wood, a former pastor and father of eight, was arrested in November 2015 and convicted last month of jury tampering, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Wood, who distributed a pamphlet published by the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA), was initially charged with obstruction of justice, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, and held on $150,000 bail. The felony charge was dismissed in March 2016. The remaining charge applies when someone “willfully attempts to influence the decision of a juror in any case by argument or persuasion, other than as part of the proceedings in open court in the trial of the case.” The only case pending on the day Wood was arrested involved an Amish man named Andy Yoder who was accused of illegally filling a wetland on his own property. Yoder ended up pleading guilty, so no jury was ever chosen for his trial. But Wood testified that he had taken an interest in the case and ordered the FIJA pamphlets after hearing about it.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Appeal this all the way.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
FIJA - doing the Lord's work one man at a time, one pamphlet at a time, one juror at a time.
#2. To: Horse, Lod (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Horse (#0)
Compare to Jury Nullification. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju ry_nullification And this from Cornell Law. www.law.cornell.edu/wex/ju ry_tampering jury tampering Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary The crime of attempting to influence a jury through any means other than presenting evidence and argument in court, such as conversations about the case outside the court, offering bribes, making threats, or asking acquaintances to exert their influence on a juror. Clearly, passing out Juror's Rights booklets is NOT Jury Tampering. ;) jury tampering
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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