updated Mon. June 24, 2024
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The Liberty Conservative
April 14, 2018
According to a FOX 17 report, amicus briefs were filed by the ACLU, Cato Institute and Fully Informed Jury Association to the Court of Appeals in support of Wood. “Our client's constitutional right to free speech was abridged here, it was violated,” Kallman said to FOX 17. “And we have groups from all sidesÃâà...
Reason
April 10, 2018
The pamphlet at the center of this case, which Wood obtained from the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) and distributed in front of the Mecosta County Courthouse on November 24, 2015, argues that jurors can and should judge the law as well as the facts, which may lead them to acquit a technicallyÃâà...
Fox17
April 9, 2018
Within the last week the ACLU, Cato Institute and Fully Informed Jury Association each filed amicus briefs to the COA in support of Wood's appeal. Kallman says it's unusual to receive three amicus briefs and from organizations spanning the political spectrum. "Our client's constitutional right to free speechÃâà...
Weed News (blog)
March 18, 2018
One of the most meaningful statements I found explaing Jury Nullification is “Former prosecutor and current Georgetown University Law Center professor Paul Butler has dubbed another variation on this theme to be “jury nullification 2.0”. He used this term in reference to the case of Touray Cornell,Ãâà...
Fox17
February 2, 2018
Wood was escorted in handcuffs from the courtroom he first faced Nov. 24 2015, after he says Mecosta County District Judge Peter Jaklevic ordered his arrest for passing out 50 Fully Informed Jury Association fliers. Wood stood on the sidewalk in front of that courthouse the day another trial was set to begin.
Reason
September 18, 2017
A pamphlet from the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) argues that jurors have a right and a responsibility to judge the law as well as the facts, which might lead them to acquit a technically guilty defendant in the interest of justice. Although that position is controversial, especially among judges andÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
August 1, 2017
Members of Occupy Denver and the Fully Informed Jury Association sued Denver in August 2015 for a preliminary injunction to allow the advocacy group to pass out juror nullification pamphlets. Jury nullifiers believe jurors may free a guilty party if they do not agree with the law the person was guilty ofÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
June 2, 2017
At trial, Wood said he did not ask anyone entering the courthouse if he or she was a juror, contrary to a witness' claim, WXMI reports. Wood said he ordered the pamphlets from the Fully Informed Jury Association after attending a pretrial hearing for Andy Yoder, an Amish man accused of illegally draining aÃâà...
Fox17
June 1, 2017
24, 2015 Wood, now a father of eight and former pastor, was arrested after passing out about 50 Fully Informed Jury Association fliers on the sidewalk in front of the Mecosta County Courthouse on the day of another trial. The fliers discuss juror rights including those that are debated and often not read byÃâà...
