Posted on 08/02/2005 12:09:00 PM PDT by Species8472
A Ketchikan judge on Monday set aside guilty verdicts returned by a jury against the activist group Greenpeace and the captain of its boat for violating state environmental regulations during a 2004 visit to Alaska.
District Court Judge Kevin Miller provided little reason for his unusual order acquitting the Greenpeace defendants except that, in his judgment, the evidence did not support the guilty verdicts.
"The decision to remove these verdicts from the province of the jury is one that this court does not take lightly," Miller wrote.
Miller presided over the jury trial and was responding to a post-verdict request by the defense to consider a reversal of the convictions.
Assistant attorney general James Fayette, reached in New York while on vacation, said: "I've been a prosecutor in Anchorage for 12 years and I've never seen this. ... I've never heard of it happening."
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Then perhaps he should have been on the jury instead of being behind the gavel.
What an idiot.
"Are you trying to show contempt for this court?"
"No...I'm doing my best to hide it."
Appointment info?
Judicial supremacy..."I'm smarter than you ignorant jurors"!
So9
So why do we bother with juries?
This is a prime example of jury nullification if I ever was one.
Guess they found out how much it cost to buy him...
Probably an elected position.
Judge Kevin G. Miller was appointed to the Ketchikan District Court, First Judicial District in 1999 by Governor Tony Knowles.(Liberal Democrat and noted environmentalist) He replaced Judge Patricia Collins.
Can it be reversed?.......
Part of the Clinton-era subversion of the judiciary. Another "bad seed" left by the minions of The Bent One.
"Are you trying to show contempt for this court?"
"No...I'm doing my best to hide it."
Remember the TV series Soap? Jessica Tate was on the stand when the judge threatened to hold her in contempt. Her response was, "Why should I be held in contempt? It's the court that's acting contemptible." One of my all time favorite lines from a TV show.
More important question, can the judge be impeached?
He can't do the job.
Why bother having a jury?
Lords and peasants, that is what this country is coming to.
"No, Your Dishonor; I have the utmost respect for this Hallowed Court. I'm only contemptuous of the contemptible masquerader, who has infiltrated this respected Court, and who is currently illicitly occupying it's hallowed bench, impersonating an honorable judge."
I guess this "judge" believes that a person has a constitutional right to a trial by a jury of his peers, so long as the jury's decision argees with his opinion.
Actually, I realize he does have the power to set aside for cause, but does he not have an obligation to spell out in detail where the jury erred?
>>>One of my all time favorite lines from a TV show.
One of mine is from the same show. Billy Crytal is spouting about all the famous homosexuals "Plato, Sacrates, etc..." After he walks out of the kitchen, Jessica sits there with a blank-shocked face and said "Mickey Mouse's dog was gay?!?!"
Some animals are more equal.
I hope they appeal to a federal circuit court or the state supreme court
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