>What is the Fully informed juror movement? Can you tell us more? the FIJ movement argues that jurors are enabled by the US constitution to judge a case not only on the basis of the facts but also the morality of the law being enforced. I got a pamplet the first day of my jury duty, complete with quotes from the "Founding Fathers." The FIJ folks say that it was only in the last part of the 19th century that judges started telling the jurors to judge only on the basis of the evidence, even though there is no constitutional basis for that. I don't know why this tradition started. Could it be the rise of the laborites and socialists in US politics, along with "free speech" cases where Wobblies were jailed for reading the US Declaration of Independence in inconvenient public places? I heard somewhere that the FIJ movement is in some way "right wing." Maybe, but it looks like one of those issues where the right and left unite (or should unite) against the middle. Luckily, I didn't have to argue the moral validity of the DUI law. in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html "A society is rich when material goods, including capital, are cheap, and human beings dear." -- R.H. Tawney.
