by Kurt Schlichter
In the military, you always seek to find the enemy’s vulnerability, the point of failure that you can hit and disrupt the entire enemy plan, and that is true for those of us fighting the current wave of lawfare being waged against patriotic Americans. They are using the legal system to neutralize and destroy patriotic Americans. But there is a weak point where we can defeat them.
The jury.
You can be that disruption. All you have to do is be a juror and play your part. And your part is determining what is true and what is false. If you do that well, you can stop them. But you have to do your job. You have to show up, get on a jury, and deliberate properly.-
Let’s start with the basics. A jury is a group of citizens who make factual determinations in criminals and civil cases. The judge handles the administration of the court proceedings and rules on questions of law. For example, the court will rule on whether the National Otter Protection Act has a three-year or four-year statute of limitations for the crime of otter harassment (I choose otter law for my example because otters are delightful and thinking about them is a welcome break from the misery of watching my country devolve into tyranny). The accused might argue three years, the government four years. That is a purely legal question – what is the law applicable in this case?
As a juror, you will rule on the fact questions. You determine what happened. For instance, you would decide when the otter was harassed, as well as whether he was molested at all. The judge will tell you what the applicable law is in the case to guide your fact finding. Your fact finding is, to a large degree, insulated from review. On appeal, with few exceptions, the courts look at legal error, not factual error. For instance, the convicted otter molester might appeal saying the statute of limitations should be only three years, but that the harassment occurred more than four years before charges were filed. The court of appeals might find the trial court was right that the otter harassment charge statute of limitations was four years, not three. But it will not review your jury’s factual determination that the otter harassment occurred three years, six months before the charges were filed. That’s important – remember that. Your jury’s factual determinations are essentially set in stone. Read the rest at townhall.com.
