Opus 018: How to change the system one trial at a time…

Opus 018: How to change the system one trial at a time…

July 26, 2013 at 10:56pm

Despite what the judge may tell you, your constitutional duty is to judge not just the guilt or innocence of the accused but to more importantly judge the constitutionality of the law. Don’t be duped by the instructions of the judge.

The only Supreme Court Justice to ever be impeached–Samuel Chase– was impeached for what our Judges do on a regular basis in our court systems today.

What can you do to help?  If called for jury duty, your constitutional duty is not just to judge the accused but the law(s) under which the accused has been charged. Your constitutional duty is to judge both the constitutionality and the fairness of the law. Judges consistently take this right from you due to your ignorance of the law.  Do not take their bait or their improper  instructions. Protect your rights and your fellow citizen’s rights.

DAs consistently over-charge to scare the accused so that they will take a plea to a lesser crime.  Never take a plea bargain to a lesser charge (unless you are guilty); always demand your 6th amendment right to a trial by jury.

From the link below:

“[In] 1795, Justice James Irdell declared: “[T]hough the jury will generally respect the sentiment of the court on points of law, they are not bound to  deliver a verdict conformably to them.” In 1817, Chief Justice John Marshall said that “the jury in a capital case were judges, as well of the law as the fact, and were bound to acquit where either was doubtful.”

In more recent times, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held in1969:
If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust,or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic and passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide that decision.

Three years later, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals noted: “The pages of history shine on instances of the jury’s exercise of its prerogative to disregard uncontradicted evidence and instructions of the judge.”
In a 1993 law journal article, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein wrote: “When juries refuse to convict on the basis of what they think are unjustlaws, they are performing their duties as jurors.”

6th Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and  public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

http://disinfo.com/2010/03/juries-are-allowed-to-judge-the-law-not-just-the-facts/