Re: jury nullification, jury veto, jury pardon

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>(Whether
>Bush was busted for cocaine possession is debatable, but I tend to
>accept the assertion as fact, given that the document which would
>have indicated that fact has mysteriously been destroyed.)

You accept it as true because the document that would prove it to be true
has been destroyed?  What would you think if the document existed?!?!!

Talk about someone altering the facts to fit their predetermined opinion!

>  By your logic, we have to let Malvo walk, because he wasn't quite
>as bad as Adolf Hitler.  Rush did the crime, he ought to do the time
>-- unless you agree that drug abuse is a victimless crime, drug laws
>are draconian and unreasonable, and we have far better things to do
>than locking people up for growing, selling, and using marijuana.

Which a juror engaging in nullification may very well think.