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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: SLS: JUROR WARNING
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> A WARNING TO ALL JURORS
>
> Dear fellow citizens,
>
> Make no mistake about it, there is a nationwide conspiracy among judges
> and District Attorneys to reduce citizen juries to nothing more than Big
> Brother's rubber stamp. There are now over 1.5 million Americans - a
> disproportional number Black and Hispanic - incarcerated. Over half of
> this total are in custody for non-violent, victimless "drug offenses,"
> like growing cannabis for medical and personal use, for example.
>
> Prosecutors and judges don't want you reading this warning or the Anti-
> Prohibition League's 'Jury Power' pamphlet. They arrest our volunteers,
> confiscate our literature, and issue a fraudulent warning about our jury
> information. Private prisons are big business these days and many judges
> are investors in "correctional corporations," such as UNICOR, for
example.
> Morally and intellectually bankrupt, some of these judges resort to
> blatant judicial misconduct to try and silence us.
>
> Recently in Gilpin County Colorado, a juror named Laura Kriho was
> convicted of "contempt of court" for voting her conscience in a minor drug
> possession case last year. The judge was outraged when a jury snitch
> informed him Kriho had spoke out against adult drug prohibition, and that
> she explained the historic role of jury nullification to her fellow
> jurors. Kriho was sentenced to a $1,200 fine several months after
> a mock hearing (without a jury of course) by an openly vindictive
> judiciary.
>
> Part of the case against juror Kriho revolved around events even before
> the drug case began, during jury selection. On hindsight the prosecutor
> and judge determined she should have voluntarily told them things the
> court has no right to ask for. Remember, Article V of the Bill of Rights
> protects all of us against self-incrimination, you can not be forced to be
> a witness against yourself.
>
> So, in light of the Kriho case, if you are asked for more than NAME,
> ADDRESS & A SIMPLE "YES or NO" AS TO YOUR IMPARTIALITY IN THE CASE AT HAND
> you should consider talking to legal counsel before you answer. Otherwise
> you could become like Kriho, punished for doing your duty as a juror.
>
> Sincerely for liberty and justice for all, good luck.
>
>
> Floyd Ferris Landrath - Director
>
> ***
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