DIY_EFI Digest V4 #66

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>From: bearbvd at sni.net (Greg Hermann)
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:51:00 -0700
>Subject: Re: Cubic Dollars

>Expelled, if you are lucky.
>
>A lady in Colorado was recently prosecuted because she failed to reveal
>her intentions to judge the law as well as the case.

Laura Kriho

 She made the mistake
>of discussing this opening in jury deliberations.  Another juror informed
>the judge, and since the judge was interested in writing a book about the
>Fully Informed Jury movement, the judge charged her with some sort of
>misconduct, and I believe she was convicted.

HI--

Yes, this did happen--I live in Steamboat Springs, CO, and it was in the
news here at the time. However, you did not read the fine print! What they
went after her for was for not informing the court of a possible
conflict--not for exercising her rights as a juror.

Me- Ah, I followed that one pretty close, and the issue as it was presented amongst
us was that not that there was a conflict, or she had had past involvement with drugs,
but her failure to volunteer that she believes that the war on some drugs is a farse,
despite the fact that she was never asked. Some of us feel that if one can be tried
for not answering questions that aren't asked as jurrors, we won't be jurrors, period.

It seems that she was
on the jury for a drug case, and she had pled nolo to a very minor drug
charge about 20 years previously. The prosecutor tried to claim that she
had deliberately concealed the conflict, and had pre-judged the case, but
perjured herself by claiming that she had no conflict in judging the case.
SHE WAS NOT PROSECUTED FOR KNOWING OR EXERCISING HER RIGHTS AS A JUROR (no
matter how much the media and the pols, judges, & lawyers wanted everybody
to believe that that was the case!) Whether she got convicted, did a plea
bargain, or got acquitted, I do not recall.

She got convicted of not volunteering information she wasn't asked, and it neted her
a few weekends community service.

The BS that the #@$% holes go
through to avoid having you know your rights as a juror would make slick
proud!!

Which makes me realize--mebbe I should remind our two Senators from CO of
just how trivial and obscure a perjury offense we in Colorado will
prosecute someone for. Perhaps they should weigh the above referenced case
during their deliberations on slick's fate!!!

me- Where's a good Islamic fundamentalist when ya need one?? He could have
gotten two for one the other day, Clinton and Paul.