-Caveat Lector- fwd. Gavin. << Summit Free Press >P.O. Box 8386 >Breckenridge, CO 80424 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >November 1998 > >Jewish FIJA board member takes issue with Judge Ryan's letter to Free Press > >Having read the long (and mostly frivolous) arguments of Judge Ryan, I >only have two things to say. First and foremost, it is always distressing >to see a judge with so little regard for the truth as Jeff Ryan displays. >As a Jewish board member of the Fully Informed Jury Association, I find >his claims that FIJA is anti-semitic or racist to be no more than vicious, >baseless lies, and I find them personally offensive- and reeking of >desperation, from a man who knows he is on the wrong side of the issue. > >Imagine the utter arrogance of a judge who thinks that if he lets jurors >consider questions of justice, that they will necessarily vote on whim, >bigotry, and prejudice - but that he (and the legislature, prosecutors >and police, of course) should be trusted completely to always do the right >thing. The low esteem in which this judge holds the citizens who voted for >him is appalling - perhaps, at the next election, they will remember his >opinion of them before pulling the lever. > >Ryan out and out lies about FIJA, misstates the history of jury >nullification, fails to comprehend the role jury nullification plays in >perfecting and protecting the rule of law, ignores how the criminal >justice system works or the part jurors have played in the development of >those same defenses he now says prove jury nullification is unnecessary, >and writes in the most condescending possible way about those who sit as >jurors. > >I have written a book spelling out those items judge Ryan errs on. >However, if he wishes, I will be glad to make myself available for a >public debate on these issues, wherein I will gladly document my claims >and show that jurors instructed in their right to acquit if the law is >unjust or unjustly applied can be counted on to deliver more just >verdicts, more often, than those who feel that they must rubber-stamp the >judge's version of the law. > > >Clay S. Conrad ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Houston, TX > >P.S. The book is entitled "Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a >Doctrine," and is published by Carolina Academic Press. Order it online >at: >http://www.cap-press.com/conrad/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Re-distributed by the: > Jury Rights Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Web page: <http://www.lrt.org/jrp.homepage.htm> > To be added to or removed from the JRP mailing list, > send email with the word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the title. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
