Posted on 04/30/2009 9:54:52 AM PDT by DFG
There are probably better ways to avoid jury duty than the approach recently taken by a Montana man. After Erik Slye, 36, received a jury notice earlier this year, he filed a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from serving on a District Court panel in Gallatin County. Slye's caustic affidavit, which he prepared with help from his wife Jennifer, can be found below.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
I got thrown out when I was being questioned about “Party Law”
That is when you are with someone who commits a crime, you are guilty too.
All I asked was, “what if it is bus full of nuns and the driver robs a 7-11, are the nun’s guilty?”
The Judge was not smiling when I got my release.
Ok. I thought it was funny how he put it, and it 's funny that he sent it, and its funny that those beauracrats got their panties in a wad over it. Just overall funny.
Jury
All by Mark Twain.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any
in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the
difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t
know anything and can’t read.
- 4th of July speech 1873
An ignorance so shining and conspicuous as yours—now
I have it—go on a jury.
That is your place.
- New York Weekly, 7/14/1873
(letter originally written to Josh Billings, 3/1873)
Our admirable jury system enabled the persecuted
ex-officials to secure a jury of nine gentlemen
from a neighboring asylum and three graduates from
Sing Sing, and presently they walked forth with
characters vindicated.
- The Gilded Age
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and
honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity
and perjury.
It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless
system because it was good a thousand years ago...
I desire to tamper with the jury law.
I wish to so alter it as to put a premium on intelligence
and character, and close the jury box against idiots,
blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.
But no doubt I shall be defeated—every effort I make
to save the country “misses fire.”
- Roughing It
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the
delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic,
shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and
jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—
and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful,
but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought
in a verdict of death “by the visitation of God.”
What could the world do without juries?
- Roughing It
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal
practical joke upon the world, but since we have the
system we ought to try and respect it.
A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we
reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must
be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart a
nd perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.
-”Foster’s Case,” New York Tribune, 3/10/1873
Why is that?
Not to many jury's have enough sense to use it. I would never set on a jury and find in favor of the IRS.
But then I also agree with the man's excuse!!!
from occupied ga ~ I bet you're proud to pay your taxes too.
Or would be if only they were higher.
Here in Silicon Valley the judges warn that they will not tolerate jury nullification in their courts.
Jury nullification is a two edged sword powered by a boomerang.
How so ...
Just tell them you know the defendant. Worked for me.
It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago...
Shameful but true!!
IF YOU WANT TO SEE LIBERTY COMPLETELY CRUSHED HERE, BY ALL MEANS AVOID JURY DUTY!
The state/feds will fill the juries out with welfare recipients, government employees, school teachers and, one-by-one send the rest of us to prison under their “Create-a-Crime” program.
LIE — just as if you were a federal agent on the stand — if you must to remain on the jury, but REMAIN ON THE JURY!
Our freedoms are secured by 4 BOXES:
THE SOAP BOX (1ST AMENDMENT);
THE BALLOT BOX (ACORN IS IN THE PROCESS OF STEALING THAT ONE);
THE JURY BOX!!! and, as the very last resort,
THE CARTRIDGE BOX (IF THE SALES OF GUNS AND AMMO ARE ANY INDICATOR, WE MAY BE CLOSER TO THAT SAD SITUATION THAN SINCE 1861)
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against - then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
p.411, Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957
>> Here in Silicon Valley the judges warn that they will not tolerate jury nullification in their courts.
How do you think they would accomplish that? Find the whole jury in contempt or something?
So far stating I don’t believe in the 5th Amendment has gotten me off Jury Duty. Defense Councils don’t seem to like that.
>> IF YOU WANT TO SEE LIBERTY COMPLETELY CRUSHED HERE, BY ALL MEANS AVOID JURY DUTY!
I’m with you on that one.
Earlier in life I would wish to get out of jury duty. The last couple times I was called I was in a position where I really could serve with little or no hardship, and I was ready and willing to serve.
Do you think I got selected? Heck no!
They didn’t say.
My survival instincts prevented me from asking either one.
Think OJ Simpson. With our increasingly polarized society laws which most agree should be enforced will be nullified by juries having a single member friendly to the defendant. The list goes on and on.
True ... however there WAS a reason the founders were in favor of it ...
“Yep, that means juries consist of people who weren’t smart enough to figure out how to get out of doing jury duty.”
Generally it is the people that don’t say anything definitive during the jury selection. The lawyers like middle of the road indecisive people.
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