There have been rumblings in the U.K. about jury nullification of gun-ban "crimes". I suspect that should occur, the new judicial order may well be used to override such (i.e., "If the crown is displeased with the verdict, we'll find another jury.").
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20051110/od_nm/brita in_jeopardy_dc LONDON (Reuters) - A man cleared of murdering a pizza delivery girl in 1989 could become the first person in Britain to be tried twice for the same crime, the director of public prosecutions said Wednesday. Billy Dunlop's case will be the first to be affected since the reform of the so-called double jeopardy rule -- which used to stipulate that a person once acquitted could not be tried again for the same offence -- came into force earlier this year. Julie Hogg disappeared from her home and her body was found by her mother behind a bath panel at her daughter's house 80 days after she went missing. Dunlop faced a jury twice over Hogg's murder but each time they failed to reach a verdict and he was formally acquitted in 1991. Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald said he had given consent for the case to be referred to the Court of Appeal under a new law because there was "new and compelling evidence." "I am satisfied the conditions are met and the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) should apply to the Court of Appeal for William Dunlop to be re-tried for the murder of Julie Hogg," Macdonald said in a statement. ----------------- Guy Smith Author, Gun Facts www.GunFacts.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
