The idea behind voir dire (which is French for jury tampering) is that a jury should be ‘impartial.’
An impartial jury is one that hasn’t already made up its mind, one that will be able to judge the facts of the case without having already pre-judged them.
This is big news for the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA.org), as well as its New Hampshire affiliate where FIJA activism has been energetic for years, and where the state legislature’s majority Republicans generally support the effort. Read this, from Newsday on April 19, 2012: “NY judge tosses out jury nullification charges” “NEW YORK – … Read more
The New Hampshire Senate will be voting on HB 146 this week, a bill that would give the jury in any trial the power of nullification.
Seving on a jury should be viewed as a form of liberty guerrilla warfare in the current "soft" or cold war between the forces of liberty and the forces of tyranny….We must close with the enemy and battle him in every arena, including in the courtroom. Give Leviathan no safe place, no place to let … Read more
What appears immediately below is a text of an email I have sent to three lawyers I know on the State House Judiciary Committee. All voted in committee against the right of juries to know about their historic and uncontested right to nullify laws and/or actions of government that are unjust: My friends…I have got to … Read more