Roughly 90 tickets have been issued since March to volunteers with the loosely organized Food Not Bombs, which serves meals to people in need.

Too many of the potential jurors said that even if the defendant, Elisa Meadows, was guilty, they were unwilling to issue the $500 fine a city attorney was seeking, said Ren Rideauxx, Meadows’ attorney.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, is this the same SCOTUS that says women have to die if their pregnancy fucks up?

    We should probably stop letting judges make laws. They don’t run this place, we do.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      12·
      10 months ago

      It’s been precedent for a long time. Also, if you want to confront the legitimately of the court system altogether, then jury nullification is meaningless.