WHEN JURY NULLIFICATION IS AN EASY CALL:

New 'Metric Martyr' puts faith in trial by jury (Nick Allen, 19/01/2008, Daily Telegraph)

A woman who is being prosecuted for selling vegetables by the pound branded the case against her "disgusting" yesterday as she made her first appearance in court.

Janet Devers, Britain's latest "metric martyr", vowed to continue trading at the stall set up by her mother at the height of the Blitz in 1940.

The 63-year-old made a brief appearance at Thames Magistrates' Court in London where she elected to be tried at a Crown Court in front of a jury, in the first prosecution of its kind for six years.
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After the hearing she said: "I am much happier about having a jury trial because you won't get 12 people on a jury who will find me guilty. It's in the hands of the public and I hope they all support me."

An American DA couldn't even afford the political stain of such an anti-human prosecution.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 19, 2008 11:01 AM