Re: Jury duty
On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:22 PM, John Thornton wrote:
A friend just finished jury duty in Federal court and had a
difficult time reaching a verdict. It was a drug case involving
transporting meth. The problem she had was that she felt the police
lied and tampered with some of the evidence to strengthen their
case but that they did so unnecessarily. She believed the defendant
was shown to be guilty even without the questionable evidence. Her
question was basically whether it was acceptable to find a
defendant not guilty, in spite of believing in his guilt, in order
to punish the police for lying and altering evidence? I’m curious
what others think they would do in a similar situation.
I’d look for every excuse I could find to acquit a drug suspect.
Doug