A Black Texas man who aspired to become a police officer spent 16 months fighting felony accusations that he assaulted two officers during a “welfare check” at his home. A jury acquitted him after his son recorded video of the arrest.
The video caught Huntsville police and prosecutors by surprise, Stewart said, because they had expected to secure a conviction based on the officers’ accounts.
The cops accused Stewart of spitting in one of their faces and shoving the other officer, but none of that is captured on video.
“I don’t like to call people liars,” Stewart told ABC 13 Houston after his acquittal.
“But fabrication, yes. Cover up, yes.”
If I were on a jury I would 1000% consider police testimony as biased and unreliable.
Sadly, I probably won’t ever get picked for jury duty, because I know what jury nullification is, and I will absolutely tell my fellow potential jurors all about it.
I once went through selection for a trial and told the prosecutor that I did not accept testimony alone as valid evidence as there has been shown to be far too many issues with it over the years.
I was dismissed before the woman sitting next to me whose answer to the question about relationships to law enforcement started with her husband being a judge, her kids were both cops, and she herself was homeland security.
You don’t have to outright tell them, but you can strongly hint at it, and not use the words “jurry nullification”.
We have been living in fascism for a long time and it requires people to get smart and keep their mouths shut to beat it.