Missoula District Court: Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’

[Swede]

Cool.

Oops,this is a dupe. Here is the link to the other thread:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x44109



On Friday, Cornell entered an Alford plea, in which he didn’t admit guilt. He briefly held his infant daughter in his manacled hands, and walked smiling out of the courtroom.

“Public opinion, as revealed by the reaction of a substantial portion of the members of the jury called to try the charges on Dec. 16, 2010, is not supportive of the state’s marijuana law and appeared to prevent any conviction from being obtained simply because an unbiased jury did not appear available under any circumstances,” according to the plea memorandum filed by his attorney.

“A mutiny,” said Paul.

“Bizarre,” the defense attorney called it.

In his nearly 30 years as a prosecutor and judge, Deschamps said he’s never seen anything like it.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_d6b1aaca-edfc-527f-ad11-f1691fdc6e3b.html

[lonestarnot]

1. Hey swede, somebody beat you to the draw on this one.

;)

[Skinner]

2. That is a fascinating article.

I encourage people to read the whole thing. Thanks for posting.

[OregonBlue]

3. Great article. Guess the cops will just have to work harder to catch the bad guys

instead of railroading people on marijuana charges.

[mdmc]

4. ..