Re: jury nullification, jury veto, jury pardon

Yardpilot wrote:

> "Ken Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Mr. Jance" wrote:
> > > Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > > 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?

  I don't have it handy, although I've listened to his show, and recall
hearing it (see http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/10/1652834.php
for some of the Internet-based documentation -- there's A LOT of it
out there).