Re: jury nullification, jury veto, jury pardon

"Ken Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Mr. Jance" wrote:
>
> > Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Frank Ney wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:54:00 GMT, an orbiting mind control laser
caused Ken
> > > > Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to write:
> > > >
> > > > >  Consider Rush Limbaugh's predicament.  It wasn't his fault that
> > > > >his doctor prescribed OxyContin, which is frighteningly addictive.
> > > > >But he became addicted, and committed any number of felonies.
> > > > >And near as I can tell, he hasn't harmed anyone but himself.  Are
> > > > >society's interests really being served by having Rush sent up the
> > > > >river for ten years?
> > > >
> > > > Depends on whether doing so gets the message across to the neocons
that the
> > > > Drugged War really isn't such a good idea or not.
> > > >
> > > > Rush deserves to get it in his fat ass, considering how he get
medieval on
> > > > anyone with a dependency issue on practically a daily basis.  Hoist
on his own
> > > > petard.
> > >
> > >   For me, this is a tough one.  If it were anyone else but Rush, I'd
be
> > > inclined to forgive -- but when you live in a glass house, you
shouldn't
> > > be in the habit of throwing stones.  Putting the neocons' most
virulent
> > > spokesman behind bars might get them to reconsider the wisdom of
> > > this War.
> >
> > Rush is every talk stations cash cow so none of them would ever drop
> > his show.  I hear a lot of the left and anti Rush crowd say how Ted
> > Kennedy should be happy now since he was Limbaugh's whipping post over
> > his alcohol addiction.  So Ken, Rush never killed anyone right?
>
>   A lot of people have gone to prison who never killed anyone.  Rush
> has been a good soldier in the war against illegal narcotics, and virulent
> in his demand that offenders be punished.  I submit that, because Rush
> has taken that manifestly unforgiving position, he should do the time he
> has demanded that others endure.

Since I'm not a follower of his, I don't hear his show to know. Would you be
kind enough to post some sort of proof that he has said addicts should be
imprisoned?