tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post7619704744804640846..comments2024-03-21T14:41:14.622-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: The Law in its Impartial MajestyFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-48159746816611744912016-10-31T12:43:28.711-07:002016-10-31T12:43:28.711-07:00According to one of the criminal defense blogs I f...According to one of the criminal defense blogs I follow http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/the-ammon-bundy-trial-this-is-why-we-have-juries/13865 the jury verdict to acquit on conspiracy was actually good law since the prosecution clearly failed to prove the conspiracy charge beyond a reasonable doubt and used an appeal to "common sense" as a basis for conviction. Interestingly he thinks a straightforward 18 USC 111 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/111 impeding an official charge for actually committing the crime could have stuck, where the conspiracy to do it failed. Plus the prosecutor double failed for not including a plain old criminal trespass charge.<br />This still doesn't excuse the jurors' whining about anything other than the prosecution not giving them something worthy of a guilty verdict. Big Daddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-67518106546888829642016-10-30T14:25:29.076-07:002016-10-30T14:25:29.076-07:00I think what happened is that the prosecution got ...I think what happened is that the prosecution got cocky and went for a tougher charge to stick; "conspiracy" that involved using firearms to commit a crime, the crime being interfering with the federal officers of Malheur NWR. Problem is that the Malheur people were gone when these jokers showed up and the US Fish and Wildlife Service never seriously tried to force their way back in. So the Moron Mulisha could claim that 1) they were just "protesting" and 2) their "protest" didn't actually "interfere" with the feds.<br /><br />Plus it sounds like the prosecutor was kind of a dick and acted like the case was a slam dunk.<br /><br />So this is pretty clearly a case of prosecutorial incompetence. But...the idiot jurors are now whining that "Oh, dear, we didn't intend to <i>endorse</i> this act of armed sedition..!"<br /><br />And you thought that these morons would understand that, dope?<br /><br />Christ, what an asshole.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-11248340023076640432016-10-29T14:52:26.723-07:002016-10-29T14:52:26.723-07:00I simply do not understand America.I simply do not understand America.Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.com