How to Get Out of Jury Duty 100% of the Time.
By admin on Sep 25, 2009 in Blogging, Offbeat, Politics, Uncategorized
I have told this trick to several friends and it has lead to instant dismissal from the courtroom each time. By the end of this article you’ll understand why it works guaranteed 100% of the time. Knowing will not only empower you, but also disturb you. Judges and prosecutors are wary of the common excuses. Who knew that court turned so many people into racists, caused people to forget the English language and trigger sudden terminal illness! Once you’ve been picked to serve on a jury and the trial is about to commence, the judge informs the jury of its duty. Duty – singular.1) The jury must decide the facts of the case.It should actually be duties though – plural.2) The jury must decide on the law in question.Judges do not inform juries of their 2nd responsibility and if you come into court for the voir dire process aware of it - you will be dismissed from the court. <br>A jurors right to veto the law is probably the best kept secrete of the court system and is what separates democracies from republics. It’s also grants the juror, to quote the Citizens Rule Book,
”MORE POWER than the President, all of Congress, and all of the judges combined!”
If you know anything about government, you’d know it isn’t in the governments interest for you to know, to be aware, that you are more powerful than it. Jury nullification strips from government its illusion of omnipresent authority. Our trial by jury, aside from maybe the 2nd Amendment, is our greatest protection against tyrannical government.
But how? What does it mean exactly to “decide the law”?
A juror has the same authority as a Supreme Court Judge to decide the Constitutionality of the law. Not all laws are legal and no level of government has the authority to create any law it pleases. Let’s say a man is being prosecuted on federal charges of selling marijuana. There’s video of him doing it, he admits to it on the stand, he’s written and signed a confession. Despite the evidence against him, which clearly shows he did in fact sell marijuana, is the law he’s bring prosecuted for legal? It is fair? Think about it ethically, is it possible to commit a crime in which no one or their property was harmed? Here we have a transaction that took place between two competent, consenting adults. No different from buying a beer at your local grocery store. And where does the authority come from to allow the federal government to make such a law? If you look to the Constitution it clearly shows that the federal government does not have that type of authority.
“Congress can legislate (make law), the President or some other bureaucrat can make an order or issue regulations, and judges may instruct or make a decision, but no JUROR can ever be punished for voting “Not Guilty!” Any JUROR can, with impunity, choose to disregard the instructions of any judge or attorney in rendering his vote. If only one JUROR should vote “Not Guilty” for any reason, there is no conviction and no punishment at the end of the trial. Thus, those acting in the name of government must come before the common man to get permission to enforce a law. ”
-The Citizens Rule Book
So I dare you, next time you’re called in for jury duty, when the prosecutor is asking you qualifying questions, inform him that you are well aware of your right to veto/nullify any law. This knowledge will frighten the court, and the government will promptly dismiss you because it now knows that you know you have the right to rebuke the authority it claims to have, but in actuality doesn’t.
Chad Prigmore | Oct 3, 2009 | Reply
This is so very true, and at the same time sad.
The best way to get out of being involved in the legal process as a juror – is to demand that you be involved in it in the way intended by the US constitution.
The government truly relies on the ignorance of the people to maintain and increase it’s abuses of power.
Roy Dunigan | Oct 7, 2009 | Reply
Yes, and still we vote the same power abusing criminals back into office again and again ad nausea.
Bob | Oct 14, 2009 | Reply
Ask yourself the following question: If you were on trial, would you want someone like you in the jury, especially if you knew you were innocent? If your answer is yes, then please, the next time you get that notice in the mail, please perform your civic duty and serve your time in the jury. Your presence could make an enormous difference for the better in someone’s life.
anonymous | Oct 14, 2009 | Reply
This is a good piece of information that everyone should be aware of. Next time run a rough draft of the article to your local college’s writing lab for a quick read through. Jeesh. This was painful to read.
You Miss Some Points | Oct 14, 2009 | Reply
The jury can make any decision it likes, true, but an unconstitutional decision, or one which goes counter to the law, will either be dismissed or overturned in an appeal. Yes, a jury has power, no, it is NOT more than a judge or the president. That’s kind of the whole point of our government set-up, is no one person or group is the MOST powerful. Also, the unanimous vote thing is somewhat new, and not part of the constitution. And if only one person votes no, then the jury is hung, and a new one is selected–the defendant doesn’t go free or anything, the case is still undecided. We all like the feeling of having a huge heaping portion of power over our fellow man and the idea that we can derail our government at will, but this isn’t an example of that kind of power.
No.7 | Oct 15, 2009 | Reply
Does it strike anyone else as ironic that someone so committed to exercising their power over their government would be so eager to avoid an opportunity to do so?
Jack Harrison | Oct 15, 2009 | Reply
I think this is a huge mistake. Knowledge of jury nullification is most valuable when it is applied. What better way to promote the process than to serve on a jury and render the laws ineffective by actual jury nullification? Using knowledge of it to avoid jury duty does no good at all. What good is it to waste the greatest power opportunity you will ever have?
I get excited when I’m called on for jury duty, it is my best shot at nullifying bad laws (which are pretty much covers ALL laws, IMO)
Tomaz | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
Why is it so important to get out of jury service?
Mike H | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
Now I know exactly what I’m getting into if I’m ever selected for jury duty. I’m actually excited about it now. I can’t wait to veto some retarded laws.
Jeff | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
Another guarenteed disqualification is to say you were a philosophy major at university. I don’t know why this is but I’ve been turned down multiple times once they discovered this fact. I’ve asked fellow philosophy students and teachers and they’ve said the same thing happened to them. It’s less confrontational but just as effective.
minnesotamark | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
“Our trial by jury, aside from maybe the 2nd Amendment, is our greatest protection against tyrannical government.”
Well, that certainly demonstrates that you are as dumb as a box of rocks. If you want to protect our citizens agains tyrannical government, you need people to sit on the juries. Although it is obvious to me that you are too ignorant to be a capable juror, there are possibly readers of this page who will try to avoid jury service base upon your silly advice.
Service on a jury is one of the most important obligations of a citizen. Period. Lecture is now over. Go back to the basement and play with your Legos.
Namisar | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
I agree with Jack Harrison. I will use the knowledge wisely. I did not previously know about jury nullification…
but I think its a little mmmm not ‘immoral’ per se but very selfish to use this as a way to get out of jury duty.
The authors example of the marajuana sale is perfect.
g | Dec 14, 2009 | Reply
PLEASE do NOT say anything to the Judge. Sit on the jury, and DO use your power to veto a law you do not agree with. It IS how prohibition was ended. Juries STOPPED convicting people using the Veto of Law principle. We can END GUN CONTROL the same way. Do NOT give them recourse, as once seated on the jury, it is more difficult to get thrown out. DO NOT let them know that you KNOW your rights as juror.
James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil | Dec 28, 2009 | Reply
Does anyone need further proof that, even in America, there is no real freedom? That any government will quickly and brutally act to squash anyone or anything attempting to dispute its absolute power over everyone and everything?
Remember, the more you are told that you are free and the more anyone prattles on about “freedom” and “democracy” (like George W. Bush) the more they have every intention of crushing those same values.
Josh B | Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
This makes me WANT to be a juror. Though my luck would have me judging some jackass who killed everyone in his family.
Though I think commenters like G underestimate the level of support for reasonable gun control.
citizen | Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
Isn’t using our knowledge of the law to our selfish benefit one of the things we detest in our government? Yes, the Jury Nullification law is ours to know AND USE but it was put into place to ensure that in power, cannot overpower the laws themselves.
Jury duty is just that – duty. It is OUR JOB to uphold the laws that we want in place (and vote out or recind, those we do not).
Like him or not, just the fact that enough American citizens came together to vote in our President should scream to you just how powerful we really are as a united people. Who would have guessed? The fact that enough of us came together for one cause should be something to celebrate and begin using again and again for all the things WE deem wrong or abused.
Be proud, do your duty and make sure our rights are not abused.
Who knows, you may be the only person who can save the freedoms of an innocent person and impart this knowledge to others so that we might be better armed to make other changes as well.
Chronno S. Trigger | Jan 8, 2010 | Reply
@citizen
It is our duty to be on a jury but this little “trick” will do just as much for our duty as citizens. If more and more people start stating that they know about jury nullification and keep getting kicked out, it will shine a giant spot light on the corruption we have. It’s one thing to start getting rid of some of these crap laws, it’s another thing entirely to get rid of the people creating these crap laws.
As a hole, citizens need to change, but it’s not going to happen all at once. This is a good way to get people to do the right thing (even if it is for the wrong reasons) and take the first step to changing the US for the better.
ossi | Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
What a silly person this author is. Why is it wrong for someone to do their jury duty? (i know you did not use the word “wrong” but you sure implied it)
Stephen J. Ardent | Feb 18, 2010 | Reply
It is every citizens duty to know their rights and duty. A judge may even tell you you don’t have the right. They’re wrong.
More info can be found at “The Juror’s Right” – http://bit.ly/xlr5v