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 Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) 
#16873180 - 09/19/12 09:14 AM (8 months, 25 days ago) |
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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120919/NEWS03/709199941
A Belknap County Superior Court jury cleared a Barnstead resident of a felony drug charge last week, siding with a defense lawyer who encouraged the jury to nullify the verdict on the grounds that the marijuana use was part of his Rastafarian religion.
The decision on Thursday cleared Doug Darrell, 59, a piano tuner and woodworker, of manufacture of marijuana, a Class B felony that carries a maximum prison sentence of 3 1/2 to seven years.
Under the principle of jury nullification, a jury can find a defendant innocent, even if prosecutors have proved guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
“It's a really important development,” said Concord defense lawyer Mark Sisti, who represented Darrell. Legislatures around the country are rethinking marijuana laws, and most New Hampshire residents have no problem with moderate use of the drug by responsible adults, he said.
“We're moving along a path we should have been on years ago,” he said. Key to the case was a decision by Superior Court Judge James O'Neill to instruct the jury about nullification, he said.
Another factor in the case could have been the presence of a Free State Project participant on the jury.
Juror Cathleen Converse of Barnstead said several members of the jury were uncomfortable with the case.
“Mr. Darrell seemed to be the only victim here,” said Converse, a retiree who moved to New Hampshire in 2004 from South Carolina. “Almost everyone said this just shouldn't have happened to these peaceful people.”
Rastafarianism is closely associated with reggae music, dreadlocks and Caribbean culture. According to the website rastafarian.com, it arose in Jamaica in the 1930s and promotes the spiritual use of marijuana and the rejection of Western society.
A Rastafarian since the 1980s, Darrell has no criminal history and has been married to his wife for 38 years, Sisti said. They have four grown children who are successful in their fields.
The couple use the marijuana plant more often for tea and medicinal rubs than to smoke it, he said.
“This is the real deal here. This isn't some kid who listened to Bob Marley last week and decided to be Rastafarian,” Sisti said. Darrell refused several plea bargains because they would require him to plead guilty to something his religions deems as sacramental, Sisti said.
He said Darrell was arrested after a National Guard helicopter, working on a grid with New Hampshire State Police, spotted 15 marijuana plants in July 2009.
At one point, the pilot was 300 feet off the ground, he said, citing testimony in an earlier suppression hearing.
Belknap County Attorney Melissa Countway Guldbrandsen said she brought the charge against Darrell because he was breaking the law. It wouldn't matter whether a defendant were an active drug dealer or someone like Darrell, Guldbrandsen would still bring the charge, she said.
Like Sisti, she said a key to the case was the judge's decision to instruct the jury about nullification. She was surprised that Judge O'Neill gave the instruction, which lent credence to Sisti's argument in favor of jury nullification.
“I don't see it as being that significant in changing our practice and the practice of the court,” Guldbrandsen said about the verdict. In January, a new law goes into effect that codifies current practice, which permits a lawyer to argue for nullification.
Sisti said O'Neill had earlier rejected the defense lawyer's argument for an instruction on nullification. But after Sisti made it part of his case and the prosecution argued against it, O'Neill accepted Sisti's request for an instruction.
Sisti said O'Neill's decision was courageous.
“This isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card,” Sisti cautioned about nullification. “It's just another valid instruction that should go to a jury in the appropriate case.”
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16873743 - 09/19/12 11:35 AM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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Wow, I grew up in New Hampshire and that's a serious deal. They come down really hard on you there. They look for it.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16873901 - 09/19/12 12:04 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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It's great to hear this. Hopefully it portends good things happening in the future.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16874190 - 09/19/12 01:01 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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Wow that's really awesome. I didn't know lawyers were allowed to inform juries about their ability to nullify though. Not that that's a problem.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#16874205 - 09/19/12 01:03 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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Depends on the state.
NH, as the article pointed out, has put the ability to do so into the legal code.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16874601 - 09/19/12 02:15 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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I can't believe it! A lawyer was able to mention jury nullification without being killed! He even got permission.
NH has been upgraded 30 points in my book. Hell, all of New England sounds great now.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: Godluck]
#16877061 - 09/19/12 10:33 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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I cant believe this actually happened.
I literally grew up 15 minutes from there and was in Belknap county jail for a while.
NH sucks when it comes to drug laws usually. It could be way worse but its no california.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16877132 - 09/19/12 10:46 PM (8 months, 24 days ago) |
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Depends on the state.
NH, as the article pointed out, has put the ability to do so into the legal code.
NH just passed a law that obligates every judge to explain jury nullification to the jurors and let them know it's an option.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16901921 - 09/24/12 01:47 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120923/NEWS03/709239880
Lawyers: 'Nullify' to be common refrain in criminal court cases
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
Douglas Darrell, from his website, pianoharptech.com, was found innocent of felony drug charges this week.
Criminal defense attorneys predict New Hampshire jurors routinely will be told they have the right to find someone innocent even if the state proves its case because New Hampshire has passed what appears to be the nation's first “jury nullification” law.
Earlier this month, a Belknap County Superior Court jury found a Barnstead man innocent of felony drug charges after the judge instructed jurors they could decide that acquittal was “a fair result,” even if the state had met the burden of proof.
It's a legal concept known as jury nullification, a power that experts say has resided in the U.S. Constitution since the nation began but is rarely applied in modern courtrooms.
And it's the basis for a new state law that permits the defense in all criminal cases “to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.”
Chuck Temple is a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he is director of the criminal practice clinic. In his 27 years of practice, he said, he has always asked judges to instruct juries about nullification — but has never had a judge do so.
Temple said the new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, “changes the landscape of how criminal cases will be argued.”
Before, he said, “in the vast majority of criminal cases, there would be no arguments regarding jury nullification. ... Now, it's going to be an everyday occurrence in criminal jury trials.”
The language of the new law is “rather inartful,” never actually mentioning nullification, Temple said. Still, he expects defense lawyers will start telling jurors about it right away; he plans to raise it in a trial set to start Monday in Merrimack County Superior Court.
“I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't,” he said. “It's just another seed I can plant in their minds in terms of what the fair thing to do is in a criminal case.”
Attorney Mark Sisti, who represented the defendant in the Belknap County case, said the verdict was “an example of just how powerful jury nullification really is.”
With the new law, Sisti said, he expects to see other acquittals come through jury nullification, in marijuana possession and statutory rape cases, for instance. And, he said, “I can envision scenarios even in murder cases....”
Judges have always had the discretion to give a jury nullification instructions, Sisti noted; “It's just that they have not done that.”
Under the New Hampshire Bar Association's Criminal Jury Instruction guidelines, here's what judges may instruct jurors: “Even if you find that the State has proven each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt, you may still find the defendant not guilty if you have a conscientious feeling that a not guilty verdict would be a fair result in this case.”
Jury nullification is “a historical prerogative of the jury,” but that “does not mean that a jury must be informed by the judge of that power,” the guidelines note. Such instruction is “best given only when it is requested by a defendant or when the nature of a particular case otherwise warrants it.”
As of the new year, however, defense attorneys here can bring it up themselves. “It's a good tool, and it's been a long time coming,” Sisti said.
In fact, the new law nearly died in committee shortly after it was first introduced in 2011.
The original language would have required the court in all proceedings to “instruct the jury of its inherent right to judge the law as well as the facts and to nullify any and all actions they find to be unjust.”
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously voted the bill “inexpedient to legislate'' on Feb. 16, 2011. Just three weeks later, however, the same committee voted, 17-1, to pass an amended version of the bill.
What happened in between?
“What changed was that somebody pointed out that it was in the Republican platform that we're for jury nullification,” recalled Rep. Gregory Sorg, R-Easton, who was vice chairman of the committee at the time. “I guess it came down from Republican leadership they didn't like that result.”
Sorg, who is a real estate lawyer, said he and other committee members thought existing jury instructions were sufficient. And he worried about the message that passing a nullification law would send to would-be jurors.
“We're inviting them to tell us we passed bad laws,” he said. “We're inviting them to nullify the work we did, maybe on a whim. And that just doesn't sit right.”
Still, Sorg ended up voting for the amended version that didn't mention nullification but required the court to “instruct the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relationship to the facts in controversy.”
By the time the Senate passed the measure the following January, the obligation had shifted from judges to the defense to inform the jury of that right. And a conference committee's final version, which Gov. John Lynch signed into law on June 18, applied it only to criminal cases.
Rep. Lucy Weber, D-Walpole, was the sole “no” vote when the House Judiciary Committee passed the bill the second time around.
“We are a nation of laws, and I think that the laws are there for all of us and I think they ought to be followed,” she said. “And to encourage people to ignore the law, I think, is a dangerous thing.”
“If we have laws that are unjust, either clearly unjust on their face or as they're applied, then you go to the Legislature and you change the law,” Weber said. “You change it for everyone.”
Dick Marple, a former Republican representative from Hooksett, is the state contact for the Fully Informed Jury Association, which promotes jury nullification.
Marple said New Hampshire is the first state to pass such a statute, a step he sees as “restoring a little justice to the system.”
“Because the jury is the conscience of the community,” he said.
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“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16901923 - 09/24/12 01:48 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120923/NEWS03/709239922
Juror says religion not a factor in nullification decision
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
It wasn’t Douglas Darrell’s Rastafarian religion that persuaded a Belknap County Superior Court jury to acquit him of growing marijuana recently, according to a woman who served on that jury.
“It was the fact that the system was coming down on a peaceful man, and it wasn’t right,” said Cathleen Converse, a 57-year-old retired accountant and grandmother who moved to New Hampshire with her husband in 2004 in the first wave of the Free State Project.
Converse was one of eight women on the jury that on Sept. 13 used a legal concept known as jury nullification to acquit Darrell, who is 59.
What disturbed jurors most was testimony that a Massachusetts National Guard helicopter hovering over Darrell’s Barnstead home in 2009 had discovered the marijuana plants he was growing for what was described as religious and medicinal use, said Converse, who also lives in Barnstead.
“I was actually appalled,” she said. “Because I live nearby, and a military helicopter over his house is over my house, as well.”
She said nullification “was in everyone’s mind from the beginning.”
That’s because defense attorney Mark Sisti had raised it in his closing arguments, after which both the prosecutor and Judge James O’Neill also addressed it, she said.
Converse said there was “very little” discussion about the Rastafarian religion. Instead, jurors focused first on whether Darrell was guilty of “manufacturing” marijuana; most felt he was.
Then they turned to the judge’s instructions about jury nullification, which they had asked for in writing. The foreman wrote them on the board:
“Even if you find that the State has proven each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt, you may still find the defendant not guilty if you have a conscientious feeling that a not guilty verdict would be a fair result in this case.”
As a Free Stater, Converse said, she was familiar with jury nullification and “gave a rundown” on the issue, including a state law that allows criminal defense attorneys to raise nullification as of Jan. 1.
They talked about how Darrell, who makes and tunes musical instruments, had never bought or sold drugs. And she said they kept coming back to the words on the board.
“‘Conscientious feeling’ is crucial,” she said.
Then a woman Converse considered one of the “stricter” people on the jury admitted she had “broken a law now and then,” she said. “And someone else said, ‘Yes, most of us have sped once or twice.’”
“And it was like the wheels were turning, that something that you don’t think is going to have consequences might have terrible consequences for peaceful people.”
“And suddenly people were saying, ‘He’s guilty, but I can nullify.’”
When the bailiff walked in to ask what the jurors wanted for lunch, they told him they had reached had a verdict.
Converse said jurors knew they had done something momentous. “We wondered what precedent it would set.”
Still, she said, “I knew that justice needed to be served. I knew I had to do this.”
The jury’s action has turned Converse into a sort of folk hero in the Free State movement. “It’s a little bigger than I’m comfortable with, to tell you the truth,” she said.
Sisti said he had no idea Converse was a Free Stater when he found her acceptable for the Darrell jury. “I don’t know if I would have selected her, knowing that,” he said.
But in the end, Sisti said, “I don’t think it made any difference.” He believes jurors “couldn’t stand the hypocrisy of convicting an individual for what was being presented before them.”
Converse said she didn’t feel she had to disclose that she was a Free Stater. “I was as unbiased as anybody,” she said. “But after all the facts were laid before us, I do not believe I could have convicted this man.”
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“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Thomas Sowell
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16901928 - 09/24/12 01:49 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120923/NEWS03/709239924
Some lawmakers see marijuana case aiding push toward legalization
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
Some lawmakers who support liberalizing the state’s marijuana laws say the recent acquittal of a Barnstead man who grew marijuana in his back yard for personal and religious use will advance their cause.
State Rep. Timothy Comerford, R-Fremont, cosponsored a bill to legalize and tax marijuana that the House killed earlier this year. He also voted for a decriminalization bill that passed the House by one vote but failed in the Senate.
The recent jury nullification case in Belknap County Superior Court will advance the conversation about decriminalizing marijuana, Comerford said. “It’s going to be slow and take a long time, but I think eventually our laws are going to catch up with the public’s view on this issue.”
Rep. Mark Warden, R-Goffstown, who cosponsored both the legalization and decriminalization bills last session, called the jury nullification verdict “a fantastic outcome.”
Warden expects the acquittal of 59-year-old Douglas Darrell will be cited whenever the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, of which he is a member, debates marijuana bills in the future.
“This shows we need to start being more open-minded and start reflecting the ideas of our constituents,” he said.
Warden said the case points up a “disconnect” between the Legislature and the general public. “The people of New Hampshire ... don’t think growing your own marijuana plants is that big a deal, yet we continue to put blinders on year after year and keep it a criminal offense.”
Police and substance abuse experts say decriminalizing marijuana would send the wrong message to young people about a drug they say can lead to addiction and other substance abuse.
But Warden said large percentages of teens and adults use marijuana recreationally. “These people aren’t criminals,” he said. “They’re making their own personal decision, and we need to get the state out of it.”
Comerford said he thinks what happened in the Belknap County case may “sway” some lawmakers who were on the fence about the issue.
“It shows that the citizenry at large is seeing that this law is unjust, and they’re taking heed of what the Constitution says ... and they’re not going to put up with prosecutors railroading peaceful people who aren’t harming anybody else.”
Comerford, who belongs to the New Hampshire Liberty Caucus, said the verdict “actually gives me a lot of hope that the people of New Hampshire are really paying attention to liberty.”
Defense attorney Mark Sisti, who successfully raised the right of jury nullification in Darrell’s case, said the verdict creates “a whole new paradigm.”
“The laws prohibiting marijuana that were created in the ’30s and ’40s have to be scrutinized again,” he said.
That’s what happened during Prohibition, when jurors refused to convict bootleggers, Sisti said: “People decided not to be hypocrites anymore.”
Jury nullification also thrived during the Civil War, when Northern juries declined to convict those accused of harboring runaway slaves, he said.
Sisti thinks the general public likewise is ahead of lawmakers when it comes to marijuana laws. “In all honesty, what are we doing?” he asked. “We’re prosecuting people for having plants that are naturally occurring.”
Sisti said some polls show at least half of New Hampshire residents support decriminalizing marijuana possession. And he predicted, “I think you’ll see that reflected in jury verdicts.”
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“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16902680 - 09/24/12 04:16 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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...wow.
Thanks for putting these up dude 
"Still, she said, “I knew that justice needed to be served. I knew I had to do this.”"
 
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#16902713 - 09/24/12 04:22 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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I've read them all a 1/2 dozen times. My nipples get perky each time.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Quote:
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I've read them all a 1/2 dozen times. My nipples get perky each time.
I just  so hard I changed my rating for you~
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"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum."; "Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system."~ Cicero
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
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Oh my! I'll keep what just got perky... to myself.
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Thomas Sowell
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Quote:
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Oh my! I'll keep what just got perky... to myself.
All 2 inches?
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#16903857 - 09/24/12 07:31 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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I can neither confirm, nor deny...
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“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Thomas Sowell
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#16904953 - 09/24/12 10:33 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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Silence implies guilt.
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Re: Jury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion (UPDATES) [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#16907407 - 09/25/12 12:09 PM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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Very encouraging, they should allow for legislation like this all across the country. I think it would be a major thing if juries knew they could vote according to the specific situation instead of whether the "proved beyond a reasonable doubt" thing was satisfied...We should all be afforded this protection!
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