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Post by 2ncrca on Apr 20, 2011 15:45:07 GMT -5
Obama's DOJ attempted to prosecute a former CIA operative who was involved in assisting in destabilizing communist governments in Latin America. Jury acquitted him after an all-out effort by the DOJ to convict. Complete articel at www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/why-did-obama-doj-prosecute-ant-communist-cia-agentWhy Did Obama DOJ Prosecute Anti-Communist CIA Agent? Last Updated: Wed, 04/13/2011 - 2:04pm With a military officer from a terrorist-sponsoring nation and a washed out journalist as key witnesses, the Obama Justice Department has suffered an embarrassing defeat after dedicating infinite resources to prosecute an elderly CIA operative who fought communism. The 83-year-old, Luis Posada Carriles, once worked to destabilize communist governments throughout Latin America and the Obama Administration was determined to convict him for something. So the Justice Department mounted quite a performance during a 13-week trial in El Paso Texas, flying in a lieutenant colonel from Cuba, which for years has appeared on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist-sponsoring nations, to testify against him.
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Post by avordvet on Apr 20, 2011 17:04:44 GMT -5
Hopefully citizens will start using due diligence... Jury NullificationWhy you should know what it isBy Russ Emal (with a little assistance from the Internet) Is it true or false that when you sit on a jury, you may vote on the verdict according to your own conscience. "True", you say, but then why do most judges tell you that you may consider "only the facts" and that you are not to let your conscience, opinion of the law, or the motives of the defendant affect your decision? In a trial by jury, the judge's job is to referee the trial and provide neutral legal advice to the jury, beginning with a full and truthful explanation of a juror's rights and responsibilities. But judges rarely "fully inform" jurors of their rights, especially their power to judge the law itself and to vote on the verdict according to conscience.... Read More: www.greenmac.com/eagle/ISSUES/ISSUE23-9/07JuryNullification.html
FIJA: fija.org/
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