Man Charged with Felony for Passing out Jury Rights Fliers

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**Deadshot**

AlexHolker wrote:
Deadshot wrote:
Basically, the courts are seeing the giving of the information as

"Hey, this guy is guilty as sin, but if you were on the jury you could declare him innocent anyway and no one could stop you *nudge*"

Which is arguably obstructing justice. However, I don't think this is what the guy was doing. But that's likely why the court charged him.

Guilty of what, is the question. For example, there have been dozens of cases where a teenager has been charged with distributing pornography of themselves. A juror refusing to find such a teenager guilty despite believing they did what they are accused of is not obstruction of justice, because finding them guilty is clearly unjust and violates the spirit of the law.

In a system such as this, that's equally valid as another juror finding them guilty. The example I gave was just generic example of possible reasoning behind it.