Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless - eviltoast
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.

  • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Definitely agree with you there. I just never like how simplistic people make jury nullification seem. It’s really just a quirk in the legal system, not an actual thing juries are supposed to do and it gets abused a lot.