District Attorney Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr., of Orleans Parish, louisiana, drops felony marijuana possession charges against Jabar Kensey, after judge Dennis Waldron, of the Orleans Parish criminal district court, was unable to find a jury of six (out of a pool of 20) that was would be willing to convict. This is another example of Jury Nullification: the act of a fully informed Jury, empowered through self-knowledge, to judge the decrees and the evidence in question.
Postscript: The following day Kensey accepted a misdemeanor plea bargain of 12 weekends in jail and forfeiture of the 100 “dollars” he had at the time he was arrested.
[added 5/30/2023] Thanks to World Net Daily for this entry.
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Authority:
louisiana constitution of 1974, article I, section 17
senate.la.gov/Documents/Constitution/Article1.htm#%C2%A717.%20Jury%20Trial%20in%20Criminal%20Cases;%20Joinder%20of%20Felonies;%20Mode%20of%20Trial
Article VI of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
A New Orleans man faced a felony marijuana charge; too many potential jurors wouldn’t consider it | Courts | nola.com
www.nola.com/news/courts/article_b01d0794-eade-11e9-8114-0f789d4d4ccc.html
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