"We Want Juries to Know What Their Powers Are."
Channel: adventures in the free state
Date: 2017-04-27

"And we want them to make the just decision. It's as simple as that." What a concept...

NH Liberty Alliance Political Director, the Honorable Dan McGuire addresses the NH Senate Judiciary Committee regarding HB133, "relative to a jury's determination as to the applicability of law." 4/25/2017.

The question of whether juries have the rightful authority -- regardless of the State's preferences -- to judge not only the facts of a case, but the offended statute at issue -- jury nullification -- was settled (again) in NH in 2012, with the eventual gubernatorial signature on 2011's HB146, which at least restored the right of the DEFENSE to present to the jury the possibility of it exercising its collective conscience. The intention of THIS bill is to settle whether servant government, itself, needs to outwardly come to terms with that established fact.