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ANY DAY NOW YOU WILL BE CALLED FOR JURY DUTY
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By: Godfrey Lehman
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As published in HEALTH FREEDOM NEWS, August 1987, pages 20-21, with the request
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this be copied and disseminated as widely as possible.
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Here are some facts you must know, but the judge won't tell you:
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FIRST: Your personal service as an honest juror -- true to your own
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conscience -- is essential to a free country.
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SECOND: As a free and Sovereign citizen/juror, you are superior in
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rank and status to anybody in the court room, including the
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judge in his/her black robe.
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THIRD: In this capacity you are totally independent of the court, not
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subject to direction nor dictation of any kind (except for
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decorum, such as being in the court room on time and listening
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to the evidence.)
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What this means is that the judge is PROHIBITED by the Constitution from
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dictating or instructing you in any way, least of all as to how to apply the
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law.
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As a Sovereign citizen, you have inherent power and actually the OBLIGATION to
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overrule (nullify) any written law that you find objectionable.
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Few judges will inform you that this is a natural right of citizenship. They
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will, instead, deceive you -- even attempt to coerce you -- into swearing you
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will take the law "as I dictate it to you."
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But every judge knows you, as a Sovereign citizen/juror, possess the right
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INHERENTLY -- not as a legal grant -- and that it is recognized and guaranteed
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by the Constitution of the U.S.A. and all 50 states.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has many times acknowledged this, starting back in 1794
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when our first Chief Justice, John Jay, wrote, "it is presumed that juries are
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the best judges of fact; it is...presumed that the courts are the best judges
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of the law. But still both objects are within your (the juror's) decision.
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You have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge both law as well as fact
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in controversy." (Georgia v Brailsford, 3 Dall 1).
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The jury's power to nullify was no new discovery even then. It has been known
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to exist virtually forever, and the pages of history shine with examples of
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jurors ensuring the people's rights and liberties by overturning bad law,
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although written in the law books.
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Yet it is as current as the Twentieth Century.
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***". . . the jury has the power to bring in a verdict in the teeth of both
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law and facts," Oliver Wendell Holmes. (1920 Horning v DC, 254 US 135.)
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***The jury possesses "the undisputed power to acquit, even if its verdict is
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contrary to the law as given by the judge and contrary to the evidence." (1969
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U.S. v Moylan, 417 F2d 1002.)
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***The jury has an "UNREVIEWABLE AND IRREVERSIBLE POWER...TO ACQUIT IN
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DISREGARD OF THE INSTRUCTION ON THE LAW GIVEN BY THE TRIAL JUDGE." (1972 U.S.
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v Dougherty, 473 F2d 1113.)
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Judges won't give out this information because if you knew you held more power
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than they, they would be stripped of dictatorial authority. There is no drug
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more habit forming than power, and the thirst for it is addictive, insatiable.
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The same courts which acknowledge the fact of jury nullification hypocritically
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advise concealing it from jurors. "If they're too stupid to know, keep them
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that way" is official court policy.
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Four state constitutions specifically declare jury nullification to be a
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NATURAL RIGHT OF BIRTH: Indiana, Maryland, Oregon and Georgia. And all 51
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(constitutions) contain a broader acceptance, over 40 stating with simple
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clarity that: "ALL POLITICAL POWER IS INHERENT IN THE PEOPLE."
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"All political power" means precisely that: The people, acting together as
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jurors, possess INHERENTLY ("endowed by their Creator") power to veto any
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action of government they do not like. The Tenth Ammendment to the Federal
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Constitution declares the same in different words: powers not delegated to
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government "are reserved to...the people." Supporting statutes in most, if not
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all, states clarify this as including jury power to nullify. Regardless,
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lawyers and courts try to control and dominate jury verdicts by preparing false
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"instructions" weeks before trial.
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You don't have to fear punishment for overriding; the judge knows he bluffs
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when he "instructs" or demands you follow his dictates. He wants you ignorant.
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But being educated is no crime. All he can rightfully do is tell you what the
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written law is. By Constitutional mandate he MUST also inform you that you can
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disregard any law in good conscience.
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IF YOU DOUBT THIS, ASK HIM. DEMAND THAT HE CITE THE SPECIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL
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AUTHORITY EMPOWERING HIM TO "DICTATE" TO YOU.
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He may cite statutes, but these have NO CONSTITUTIONAL support; there- fore
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they are not valid in law.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
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That's right! When judges and lawyers in the court room ply you with questions
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you can simply say "I don't wish to answer for PRIVACY reasons."
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When you are called for jury duty--remember this:
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Every judge in the world KNOWS that both the Federal and your own state
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CONSTITUTIONS IN THEIR ENTIRETY ABSOLUTELY PROHIBIT him from compelling you to
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reveal anything about your private life, your thoughts, your job, what you
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read, your personal associations, your family or anything else not just because
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they protect you, but because privacy is AN INHERENT RIGHT endowed "BY OUR
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CREATOR" as phrased in the Declaration of Independence.
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Judges assume you won't know this since there is no prohibition in ASKING--and
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to ask in the forbidding atmosphere of the court room APPEARS to be a legal
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demand. But it is not, and not to inform you that you don't have to respond is
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to break faith with you.
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The court room inquisition of jurors is called "voir dire" and we are made to
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think it is a legitimate attempt to form an "impartial jury."
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THAT IS A LIE!
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The ONLY purpose is to STACK THE JURY WITH BIAS--to build the DESIRED BIAS into
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the jury so the jury can be controlled by the court.
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The Supreme Court has often commented upon this, possibly most strongly in
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1941: "Tendencies, no matter how slight, toward the selection of jurors by any
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method other than a process which will insure a trial by a representative group
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are undermining...weakening the...jury...and should be strongly resisted."
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(Glasser V U.S., 315 US 60) because fairness "necessarily contemplates an
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impartial jury drawn from a cross section of the community (and) jurors shall
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be selected . . . without systematic and intentional exclusion" of any
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"stratum of society." (Thiel V So.Pac., 328 US 217, 1946).
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The function of "voir dire" is precisely to destroy the "impartial cross
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section" which makes the questioning ILLEGAL from the start.
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Thus not only are you NOT REQUIRED to answer any questions you SHOULD NOT,
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other than to identify who you are, that you are over 18, understand English,
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are a citizen and resident of the area. Unless you have a personal reason for
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offering additional information VOLUNTARILY you should say nothing. If the
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judge presses, demand that he reads to you his CONSTITUTIONAL authority for
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insisting you yield your INHERENT AND PRECIOUS RIGHT TO PRIVACY! (He won't do
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it because there is none.)
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Reprinted from a brochure distributed by THE JUSTICE TIMES.
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