New Hampshire Jury Nullifies its First Felony Marijuana Case

[SneakyFrenchSpy]

A major victory is scored for jury nullification with the acquittal of felony marijuana charges – and it’s all thanks to a “straight-laced little old lady” juror and participant of the Free State Project

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9907650.htm

 

[Keith and stuff]

Let's not forget the FSP folks helped pass the bill in the 1st place. Then again, so did the NH Speaker of the House. Also, Tea Party folks had a hand in it.

Also, Rep. Dan Itse, the NH State Rep. famous for helping restart the national state sovereign movement also had a hand in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Itse

Itse is a national leader in the state sovereignty movement which calls for restoration of the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the empowerment of the states under the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

We got it in the NH GOP Platform. However, the bill as originally written was too awesome for the NH House. The committee was against the bill. The NH Speaker of the House and Rep. Dan Itse knew that jury nullification was part of the NH GOP Platform so they pulled the bill from the consent calendar (in this case, the bill was going to be voted down by the full NH House with a voice vote, as in a none recorded vote) and sent it back to committee. The bill was amended to be something able to make it through the NH House (the NH House isn't completely pro-liberty yet). It then went to the NH Senate. It took us about a year to pass the bill in the NH Senate. Before the bill could pass, it had to go through a bunch of committee hearings where the language of the bill was changed to be both something useful, and something which could get through the NH Senate. We had a massive blog campaign. We also had phone call and email NH Senator campaigns. We also got several pro-liberty lawyers involved. The lawyers directly contacted the NH Senate folks on the Judicial Committee. Finally it was able to go before the NH Senate for final consideration. Thanks partly to NH Senator Jim Forsythe, we were able to get it passed, over the objection of the President of the NH Senate. Governor Lynch signed the bill, likely thinking it was no big deal. After all, the only Democrat on the NH Senate Judicial Committee thought the bill was so minor it wasn't even needed and that is why he was against it.

Anyway, that is part of the story. Part of the story you won't read anywhere else. An exclusive if you will

 

[Badger Paul]

That is the best example one can give of the potential of the FSP.

 

[donnay]

Excellent news!

 

[KCIndy]

Converse describes herself as a “straight-laced, little old lady” who moved to New Hampshire from South Carolina in June of 2004. In 2003 she joined the Free State Project because she felt that her family’s future “would be better spent among those who don’t think we’re strange for wanting to rely on ourselves, and to work together to bring more liberty into our lives sooner rather than later.”

Great news!

I hope the FSP community is especially alert and ready to defend Converse from any retaliatory actions from the prosecutor and other authorities.... they've got to be grinding their teeth over this!

 

[Aldanga]

This is good news, but whoever wrote the press release needs to reread the definition of sacrament.

Darrell was offered several plea deals, including a final one that offered no jail time or fine in exchange for a guilty plea, but he refused to accept them on the grounds that doing so would be a sacrament of his religion.