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If The Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
You and I have the power to end Nixon’s failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it’s our constitutional right to do so. Imagine for a second that you’ve been selected as a juror for the trial of someone like Jacob Lavoro, the 19-year-old Austin, Texas man currently facing anywhere from five years to life in prison for making a pound-and-a-half of pot brownies.
You know that based on the all evidence presented by the prosecution that the defendant is probably guilty, but you and other jurors on the case have serious doubts about convicting him because you know that doing so will ruin the defendant’s life. You’re trapped. The law says one thing, but your conscience says the other. So what do you do?
Easy - you use your power of jury nullification. You declare the defendant “not guilty” regardless of the evidence and let him walk free, “nullifying” the unjust or unfair law. Just like the Supreme Court has the power to strike down laws, you too as an American citizen have the power to reject laws when you’re serving on a jury.
If you haven’t heard of jury nullification before, that’s not all that surprising. The powers that be really don’t want anyone to know about it because it represents a direct threat to the status quo. Defense lawyers, for example, aren’t allowed to talk about a jury’s right to nullify during a trial and saying that you know about nullification is actually one of the easiest ways to avoid jury duty altogether.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Daniel Schulman, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: guns don't kill people...culture does
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Article: " 5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, due compensation). Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8." ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; ..."
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Article: " Federalist No. 81" (The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority) by Alexander Hamilton. Article: " Federalist No. 84" by Alexander Hamilton (The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury).
Quote: "I was struck with surprise when I heard him express himself alarmed with respect to the emancipation of slaves" - James Madison".
Hour Two: Time to get rid of open carry gun laws?- Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter 
Hour Four: Bubbles and Piketty- Economist L. Randall Wray, New Economic Perspectives.
Hour Five: If The Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
Hour Six: Honor the peacemakers
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Hour One: ‘I Don’t Care if You’re Sorry,’ Do Something! Send a Postcard!!
PLUS, Is it possible that dog people are conservative and cat people liberal?
Hour Two: 'No guns' doesn't mean more crime- Timothy Johnson, Media Matters for America
Hour Three: Ukraine...what's next?- Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
Bonus hours...
Hour Four: Let's amend the constitution- Peter Schiff, The Peter Schiff Show
Hour Five: What is 'New Economic Perspectives'?- William K. Black, University of Missouri in Kansas City
Hour Six: Is it time to roll back Taft Hartley yet?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Under a new bill, federal agencies would be required to fire employees who are tax delinquents...we'll find out what that's all about...
Plus, forget about coal and gas, America needs more solar power! I'll have a conversation with Rhone Resch, President & CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association
And, the best of the rest of the news together with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will the latest mass shooting have any effect on gun policy?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
You Can Be Subversive on Jury Duty
Politics Panel - Conservatives Trust Markets not Voters
Politics Panel - Time for the Bloodshed to Stop
The Truth about the Second Amendment
Conversations with Great Minds P1: The major dangers from GMO crops
Conversations with Great Minds P2: The major dangers from GMO crops
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/27/14: Radiation Levels Keep Rising Near Fukushima Plant
Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses the latest mass shooting, the Supreme Court's recent death penalty ruling and whether Virginia will finally accept Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Thom discusses the second amendment with Michael Waldman, author of the new book "The Second Amendment: A Biography," how radiation levels continue to rise around the Fukushima plant in tonight's "Green Report" and tonight's "Daily Take" discusses how average Americans can help end Nixon's "war on drugs."
Thom Hartmann on Science & Green News: May 26, 2014
Bubbles and Piketty...
If The Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
Caller: Liability Insurance on Guns, Where Does it End?
Why Don't we Honor the Peacemakers?
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 27, 2014
Race to the Primary...
Hartmann: Guns Should be Regulated Like Cars
Shooting Victim's Dad Blasts NRA for Son's Death...
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 27, 204 p2
Thom Hartmann on Economic and Labor News: May 26, 2014
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