Government vs. Fully Informed Juries: Denver by Roger Roots
Channel: FIJANational
Date: 2016-04-29

Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D. presents the first paper on the ACJS 2016 panel "Juries and Jury Nullification in Law and Practice". He discusses the government crackdown on fully informed juries, specifically focusing on the crackdown in recent months in Denver, Colorado, location of this year's ACJS conference.

(Apologies for the video issue where Roger appears possessed at certain points during the talk. For the time being, please interpret it as Roger being possessed with a passion for jury rights. ;-) 

I am FIJA's one full-time staff member, and I'm not an AV professional by any stretch of the imagination. I tried to clean up the audio noise a bit in Audacity, and then made this video in iMovie. I have no idea what is causing the flickering. It doesn't seem to appear in the raw footage and seems to be introduced in iMovie. Other than that, I have yet to be able to figure out what is causing it or how to correct it. We definitely want to get better in this area of our outreach. 

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