by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
It’s been several weeks since the awful tragedy in Parkland, FL, where 17 students were killed by an evil loser. Since I written several times about the utter impracticality of gun control, and since a growing number of honest liberals (see here, here, here, and here)...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I periodically fret that individualism is dying in the United States and that Americans are morphing into handout-loving Europeans. Well, the spirit of 1776 is not completely dead. There are still some Americans who stand up against the greedy, grasping, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
In my first column on jury nullification, I applauded ordinary citizens for producing a not-guilty verdict when the federal government tried to impose bad U.S. tax law on a Swiss banker who lived in Switzerland and obeyed Swiss law. Simply stated, borders should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I wrote two days ago about a jury correctly voting to acquit a Swiss banker who was being prosecuted (and persecuted) by the government. The jury presumably recognized that it’s not the responsibility of foreign national living in outside the U.S. to enforce our bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I haven’t written in any detail about “jury nullification” since late 2010 and it’s time to rectify that sin of omission. Nullification occurs when a jury votes not guilty because a law is either unjust or wrongly applied, not because a defendant is actually innocent....
