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 - pural.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 seperates 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, in form him that you are well aware of your right to veto/nullify any law. This knowledge will frightened 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.