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-Effecting Change Outside the Law with Jury Nullification
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Effecting Change Outside the Law with Jury NullificationA big thank you to Joseph S. Diedrich for including jury nullification in his recent article on effecting...
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-Georgia Judge Informs Jury of Mandatory Sentence
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Georgia Judge Informs Jury of Mandatory SentenceFulton County Superior Court Judge Wendy Shoob recently took the all too uncommon but highly commendable step of...
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-Jury Protects Man from Firearms Charges
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Jury Protects Man from Firearms ChargesThe Youngstown Vindicator reports today that a jury has protected a defendant from charges of carrying a concealed weapon and...
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-Holdout Jurors Protect Citizen Media
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Holdout Jurors Protect Citizen MediaFullerton, California jurors recently deadlocked in the cases of citizen journalists A.J. Redkey and P.M. Beers, who were...
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-Grand Jury Is Right to Comment on Government Corruption
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Grand Jury Is Right to Comment on Government CorruptionBoth the Dallas News and the Texas Tribune recently called a Travis County, Texas grand jury on the carpet in...
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-Is Juror Skepticism of Police Testimony on the Rise?
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Is Juror Skepticism of Police Testimony on the Rise?In the wake of numerous, high-profile cases involving questionable police conduct, are jurors becoming more...
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-How Prosecutors Can Control Jury Nullification through Jury Instructions
Fully Informed Jury Association | -How Prosecutors Can Control Jury Nullification through Jury InstructionsThe trial of a San Antonio juvenile has been interrupted by an emergency stay just short of...
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-Stimson Verdict Not An Anti-Jury Nullification Statement
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Stimson Verdict Not An Anti-Jury Nullification StatementLast month, a jury convicted Todd Stimson of multiple, victimless, marijuana-related offenses, in connection...
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-Texas Appeals Court Upholds Jury Instructions
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Texas Appeals Court Upholds Jury InstructionsLast week we reported news of a San Antonio trial that was temporarily halted as prosecutors appealed the judge’s...
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-States Preserve Jury Rights with Asset Forfeiture Reform
Fully Informed Jury Association | -States Preserve Jury Rights with Asset Forfeiture Reform Just yesterday, Governor Steve Bullock signed Montana’s HB 463, a civil asset forfeiture reform bill, into...
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-Supreme Court to Consider Exclusion of Black Jurors in Death Penalty Case
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Supreme Court to Consider Exclusion of Black Jurors in Death Penalty CaseBy UpstateNYer [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia...
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-Randy England On Jury Nullification When He Was A Prosecutor
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Randy England On Jury Nullification When He Was A Prosecutor In last night’s episode of Freedom Feens, available for online listening here, Randy England spends some...
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-Possible Jury Nullification in Las Vegas MMJ Case
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Possible Jury Nullification in Las Vegas MMJ Case Late last month, a jury acquitted Steven Ficano on two felony charges, possession of marijuana and possession of...
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-Nathan Goodman to Serve as FIJA Fellow
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Nathan Goodman to Serve as FIJA FellowHello, FIJA supporters! My name is Nathan Goodman, and I will be joining the Fully Informed Jury Association this summer as a...
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-Queer Liberation and Jury Nullification
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Queer Liberation and Jury Nullification It’s June, and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, that means it’s Pride month. All...
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-Know Your Roots, Know Your Jury Rights
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Know Your Roots, Know Your Jury Rights Happy Magna Carta Day! Today marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede. Now that I’m...
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-Fellow Updates: Media Outreach, Jury Health Project
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Fellow Updates: Media Outreach, Jury Health ProjectHello, FIJA supporters! Last month I introduced myself to you and explained a bit about my role at FIJA as the 2015...
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-Colorado Jury Says No to State’s Marijuana DUI Limit
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Colorado Jury Says No to State’s Marijuana DUI Limit A Denver medical marijuana patient has been acquitted by a jury of a marijuana-related DUI after being pulled...
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-Man Sharing Jury Nullification Information Arrested in Denver
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Man Sharing Jury Nullification Information Arrested in Denverphoto credit: Janet Matzen We got word yesterday from Occupy Denver that jury rights educator Mark...
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-Jury Nullification for Carriker in Ridiculous Felony Murder Case
Fully Informed Jury Association | -Jury Nullification for Carriker in Ridiculous Felony Murder Case I got news this afternoon from Joe Grumbine of The Human Solution International of a Not Guilty...
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