2012 talk at the BIL Conference about Jury Nullification.

1. JURY/dev/null
by Kai Chang
張敦楷

3. “Land of the Free”

4. A Serious Problem

6. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the
world. The U.S. incarceration rate on December 31, 2008 was 754
inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. The USA also has the highest total
documented prison and jail population in the world.
- New York Times
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): "In 2008, over 7.3
million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at year-
end — 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults."

7. 1. USA: 2.3 Million
2. China: 1.6 Million

8. 1 in 31 Adults

9. 1 in 9 Black Men
(Age 20 to 34)

10. DWB

11. DWB
“Driving While Black”

12. Peter Watts

14. Canadian science fiction author is accused by Michigan border guards, while
he's on the way back to Canada, of having assaulted them. In court, it came
out that although the guards struck Watts several times, Watts never raised a
hand against the guards. However, he was still found guilty because the law
places "failure to comply with a lawful command" -- in this case, a guard's
ordering him to lie down -- as "obstructing a federal officer," and
"obstruction", by the wording of the law, is considered to be as much of a
crime as assault is.
Yes, Americans, Michigan just convicted a man for not lying down and
groveling fast enough. The jury, at one point during deliberation, sent a
question to the court: "Is failure to comply sufficient for conviction?" It
doesn't get a lot clearer than that.
And one thing that's especially clear to me is that this is a jury that had no
idea what jury nullification is.

15. Prison-Industrial
Complex

17. So What is Jury
Nullification?

18. You Have Rights The
Prosecutors & Judges Don’t
want you to know about.

21. In the state of California, Defense Attorneys
are FORBIDDEN to inform jurors the
punishment awaits an accused defendant if he
or she is convicted of the charges.

22. What’s being done
right now?

23. Fully Informed Jury Association
http://fija.org/

28. Law Nerds

29. Graphic Novel/Manga

31. Instructional PDFs to
explain a juror’s power
to the 100 IQ crowd

32. PDFs to print out and pass
along to other jurors, informing
them of their rights

33. Cost to Incarcerate a
California prisoner: US$47,102

34. Be a part of the
solution.

35. @kaichang
www.juryangel.org