Not Guilty

14 Replies to “Not Guilty”

1. Either the “justices” are trying to avoid pouring gasoline on the Trump fire. Or, this is an honest verdict. Maybe all of the above.

2. Thank God for that.
   Pity the subhuman jackboothed thugs got to execute LaVoy Finicum first. But of course when a white man is murdered in cold blood by cops, who later are proven to be routinely laying about what happened, there is no riots and no neighborhoods burn down.

3. This is the Ninth Circuit and they have some Nuts to hid… better to let thing go… If the Republicans eliminate
   the Ninth..95% of the nonsense ENDS… Funking Republican A-Holes want to control the Corrupt Bastards.. Harry Reed and his O.C. friends from Utah.. MITT… Mitt… Mitt

4. In spite of what has happened to our “Justice System”… a smidgen of justice just sneaked through.

5. The bawling White Liberal comments on Twitter are hilarious. Paraphrased “White men with guns go free – oh the inhumanity!”
   First they hate the cops that shoot a single black murderer – Now they REALLY hate the cops that didn’t blow ALL the white patriots away.

6. Comey made rule of law an anachronism.

7. LaVoy Finicum shot with his hands up from what video I saw. Fouckers.

8. Anyone who complains about this decision need only remember that Comey effectively ended “rule of law” in our once great nation.

9. All the justice will not bring that man back. Not to mention I watched the video from inside the vehicle being littered with bullets where is the excuse for that all of them were unarmed except lacy and he was no threat to the police ever. I can’t breathe, hands up don’t shoot!! Idiots

10. This verdict reeks of politics. The 9th District would NEVER take the side of gun-toting, anti-government, freedom fighters. Something smells wrong about this. Rest assured that the 9th Dist. will return to undermining the US Constitution as soon as Hillary is coronated. Only by then … there will be no Supreme Court to overturn their nonsensical rulings. I feel a raging storm gathering.

11. “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird.” – Bill Ayers, Weather Underground terrorist
    This was jury nullification, when the jury thinks the defendants are guilty of the charges, but that convicting them would be “unjust.” It is legal for a jury to do this, but prosecutors and judges hate it. There is also such a thing as “prosecutor discretion,” where a prosecutor may think the defendant is guilty, but does not bring charges because a conviction would not be “in the interests of justice” Jury nullification is another version of that. The prosecutor’s mistake was trying the defendants in an area where the jury pool was sympathetic to the defendants. They will probably not make that mistake again.

12. The trial was in Portland, which is about as Liberal/Progressive as you can get. It’s hard to think the prosecutors could have found a more favorable venue than that, without moving the trial to the East Coast.
    But I agree that it was probably nullification. Not so much about the reasons the crew took over the facility, but more about how extremely heavy-handed the response by authorities turned out to be. Even a jury filled with Progressives might find that Justice required the not-guilty verdict.

13. I think the jurors recognized that it was simply a protest and nothing more. Eleven minor actors have already pled guilty and another 7 go on trial in February.
    Hopefully the fact that this crew was acquitted means Mrs. Finicum can win her lawsuit against the lying FBI and Oregon State cops. A lethal takedown of people guilty of nothing in such a dramatic operation hardly seems justified. I suspect the feds will settle for a $ few million to save the FBI from lying on the stand or having to admit they lied previously.

14. This is sure to get the eco-wackos panties ina binder they will be demanding this man get life in prison for tresspassing on a wildlife refuge the tree huggers will be sending out their junk mail with those dumb little postcards demanding a retrial