Liberal Jury Pays Illegal Alien’s Fine After Theft Conviction

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Liberal Jury Pays Illegal Alien’s Fine After Theft Conviction

December 16, 2017| by Brian Anderson

Back in the 1990’s “jury nullification” was all the rage, where black jurors were encouraged to acquit black defendants no matter how guilty they were or how grievous the crime they committed was. It appears as if liberals are reviving this to help “new Americans.” A liberal jury in SF found an illegal alien not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle, despite the fact that he absolutely did it. In Virginia another liberal jury was forced to convict an illegal alien because she confessed to theft, but they imposed a minimal fine and then went ahead and paid it off for the convict.

https://downtrend.com/liberal-jury-pays-illegal-aliens-fine-after-theft-conviction/

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I used to think liberals were evil. Reconsidering, and to be kind in the spirit of the season, maybe they’re just plain soft headed fools.

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I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the Russian Propaganda site Downtrend would hate one of the remaining American expressions of freedom.

In an America with ever dwindling freedoms attacking jury nullification because of an outcome we don't like is pure stupidity.

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

JOHN ADAMS (1771): It's not only ....(the juror's) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge's instruction...."if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has...."unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge."