updated Tue. August 27, 2024
-
U.S. News & World Report
June 2, 2017
Activists Mark Schmidter and Julian Heicklen, a retired Penn State University chemistry professor, were separately arrested and convicted of contempt for violating the judge's order. Heicklen's conviction was tossed on a technicality, but Schmidter – who was sentenced to 141 days in jail in connection withÃâà...
Care2.com
May 20, 2014
Did you know that, no matter the evidence, if a jury feels a law is unjust, it is permitted to “nullify” the law rather than finding someone guilty? Basically, jury nullification is a jury's way of saying, “By the letter of the law, the defendant is guilty, but we also disagree with that law, so we vote to not punish theÃâà...
Orlando Weekly
February 26, 2013
Schmidter was (and apparently still is) acting as a foot soldier for the strict constitutionalists that comprise the Fully Informed Jury Association, a group that believes in the concept of "jury nullification," or the right of jurors to make their decisions based on whether they believe in a law or not, and not justÃâà...
