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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 09:28 PM EDT |
It gets worse: Reading the sidebar link. The foreman has stated that
'The
thing that did it for us was when we saw the memo
from Google telling Samsung
to back away from the Apple
design.', which was not presented in the
case.
Not only that When I got in this case and I started
looking at
these patents I considered: 'If this was my
patent and I was accused, could I
defend it?' and 'I
thought, I need to do this for all of
them.'.
Hogan said he explained his thinking to his
fellow
jurors.
4. Receiving information not presented as
evidence in
the case—note: in most jurisdictions this is one of the
few
permissible ways of attacking a jury verdict on the
basis of
misconduct:
Visiting the scene of the crime or tort
Conducting
experiments related to the evidence
Conducting legal research on the
case
Conducting factual research on the case
Reading news
reports about the case
All of these become more damaging if the juror
reports the
results to other jurors, as usually happens
5.
During deliberations:
Refusing to participate at all
Coercing
other jurors
Making statements indicating racial or other kinds of
prejudice
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
That's not entirely valid. The entire point of a jury is to
protect the defendant. In a criminal case, it's to protect
the defendant form the state so the state can't arbitrarily
arrest and punish somebody. In a civil case, it's to
protect against the prosecuting side, so I can't just
randomly walk up to you and effectively mug you by using the
stat's guns (police to enforce "damages and penalties").
The concept of "jury nullification" is valid, and (judges
don't want you to know this) juries are encouraged to rule
not guilty even if a law was technically broken if they
don't agree with the law or the law is invalid or in
contradiction to a superior law (constitution, moral, etc).
You can also choose not guilty, or guilty of an entirely
different thing than the prosecution is charging if you
don't feel the punishment or sentencing guidelines are fair
While I agree this was clearly a biased and purchased jury,
and this entire thing should be thrown out, you can't say
with a blanket statement that a jury is irresponsible and
invalid for agreeing to ignore a law.
Look it up yourselves, and please spread a better
understanding of our laws. Jury nullification needs to be
used and understood.
http://fija.org
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