[zeugma]

You have a sound argument and I agree with you. What I don't understand is how could a jury not see the same way? It looks like a simple case of the government wanting to steal 7 million dollars worth of silver and the jury is letting them do it.

Pertty simple really. You have a bunch of jurors who are ignorant of the law and their rights as jurors, and the judge pretty much instructed them to return a guilty verdict. The key to modern tyranny when it's not just extreme violence at the point of a gun is almost always through the instructions to the jury.

Wish I could have been on the jury for this one.

[Stentor]

Wish I could have been on the jury for this one.

These coins fooled no one. This man was prosecuted for a thought crime. He thought he was a free man.