[PEN-L:232] Re: Re: Re: Re: juries

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Information packets for jury nullificationists ought to include a brief
description of what kind of lies one can get away with and which are
dangerous. Also right to withhold information.

On Death Penalty: I should think that if one can imagine a single case
someplace on the globe where she wd support a death sentence, then it is
not lying to say that one does not oppose capital punishment. Also, for
example, would it be legitimate to have in one's mind cirumstances under
which one would oppose jury nullification (and hold back, say, that
those circumstances would presuppose a peaceful non-capitalist social
order)? I see no "moral" obligation to tell the truth to any agent of
the capitalist state: it is simply a matter of risk to oneself plus
judgment of the contingent circumstances.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Ellen Dannin wrote:
>
> > When I was called for jury duty a
> >few weeks ago we were asked whether we knew what jury nullification was and
> >whether we believed in it.
>
> By whom? Judge? Prosecutor?
>
> A friend of mine was disqualified from a NYC jury because he said he
> thought that the drug laws were insane. They also exclude folks who oppose
> capital punishment from murder cases, don't they? Now they're trying to
> exclude nullifiers?
>
> Doug