• joethebob
    +6

    Wish there was an article that had a more detailed account. Was this a case of essentially incompetent prosecution or just jury nullification?

    • ChrisTyler
      +7

      They have hours of video evidence of them committing the crime they were charged with. This couldn't possibly be anything other than jury nullification.

    • sgfc
      +7

      Let's just look at the one charge of "possessing a firearm in a federal facility". They were shown in the news, on TV and the Internet at a federal facility and possessing firearms. They never denied that. And they were acquitted.

      That can't be mere prosecutorial incompetence. But I am surprised that it is jury nullification as they did not seem to be well received in Oregon and even the people they were protesting for wanted them to go away.

      • joethebob
        +4

        Thats part of my point really. They didn't have the universal support for random jury nullification, so the failure would trace back to the prosecution at jury selection.

      • RoamingGnome
        +4

        My cousin lives in the house that is cater-corner to the courthouse up there. She says they most definitely were not well-received. If she had been on the jury, there would be at least one guilty vote.