Jury Duty: Service or Servitude??

[TacticalEvilDan]

Oh, interesting! (I obviously didn't click on the second link.) I'll bet one of the reasons it WAS dismissed was the likelihood that the cure would be worse than the disease. Ha!

That is most likely the true motivation. In all honesty, the judge probably wanted to kick that idiot prosecutor int he heat for putting her in an impossible situation.

Not because the man was being prosecuted unjustly, of course, but because such a case would put before a jury the concept of jury nullification -- something which has never been done in our nation's history. From the first link:

Mr. Heicklen, who could face a six-month sentence if convicted, has asked for a jury trial. Ms. Mermelstein, opposing that demand, cited as one reason Mr. Heicklen’s ardent stance that juries should nullify. He would probably “urge a jury to do so in a case against him,” she wrote.

I'm sure you're familliar with the history of nullification, but I figured maybe others are not.