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Title: South Florida Man Charged With Growing Marijuana, Found Not Guilty (Jury Nullification)
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NBC Miami
URL Source: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/ ... ound-Not-Guilty-294721291.html
Published: Mar 3, 2015
Author: Keith Jones
Post Date: 2015-03-03 21:51:25 by Hondo68
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Views: 4827
Comments: 32
A South Florida man charged with growing marijuana he claims he needs for a medical condition was found not guilty Monday. Jesse Teplicki, 50, had been charged with manufacturing cannabis and was facing up to five years behind bars. "This case is about medical marijuana and for the hundreds of thousands of patients who can use this medicine as an alternative," Teplicki said. It took jurors just 30 minutes to return the verdict. "A lot of suffering. I really felt here was somebody with a lot of issues, with a lot of suffering since he was nine years old," juror Mark Munzer said. "Everything was justified." Teplicki suffers from a severe case of anorexia which suppresses his appetite and makes him nauseous. Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested him last year for the cultivation and possession of 46 marijuana plants. Prosecutors had called into question the amount of pot plants for just one person, but jurors said it was a case about compassion. "This was a groundbreaking case and we are very pleased that the jury acquitted Mr. Teplicki on all charges," said Michael Minardi, Teplicki's attorney. "The evidence showed he was using cannabis to help him manage a serious and painful medical condition which he has endured for years." Teplicki is the first person in Florida to have a jury of his peers decide if he’s guilty or not of using marijuana as a medicine. "I hope this invigorates the State of Florida and all people who are being charged with cannabis to fight," Teplicki said. "That's the only way you make change." Teplicki said he will resume life as he knows it. "I go home this evening, I have a meal with my wife and smoke a fat one before it and that's it," he said.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Good. Jury nullification needs to be applied in many areas of law as Big Stupid Government creates thousands of stupid laws that need to be ignored and destroyed.
With 58% of the FL electorate voting for medical mj, and this precedent setting verdict, it doesn't bode well for future prosecutions. Medical marijuana has arrived in Florida.
Given our grossly lawless president and our now-lawless Congress (who are funding Obola's illegal amnesty and giveaways), why enforce any laws at all or pretend they are anything but arbitrary whims or outdated nonsense to be nullified in a court or by a jury? We now have a right to ignore all the laws we want to ignore, just like our prez and Congress do.
The Jury has found that the legislation against growing MJ for medicinal use, is NOT law, and that government criminal gangbangers illegally arrested the victim. The people of Broward County Florida have voted for this lawless gang of D&R party totalitarian thugs, who just make stuff up as they go, and call it "law".
46 MARIJUANA PLANTS??? For "medical" use? "Teplicki suffers from a severe case of anorexia which suppresses his appetite" So what's he doing ... eating the plants for dinner? "Medical" marijuana is not even legal in Florida. And if it ever is, I doubt they'll allow anyone to grow $200,000 worth.
That's your reaction. The jury's reaction was, 'meh'. If prosecutors can't get a conviction for 46 plants, what are the odds they'll get a conviction for 6 plants? No sir, medical marijuana has come to Florida.
Maybe. If so and he eats 3 meals a day, that's over a thousand meals a year. Or one plant for every 20 meals. Which isn't all that much. Compare it to eating a dinner salad of lettuce at every meal.
Does lettuce get you high? 46 plants! In a state that does not allow medical marijuana. And the jury let him off. I can see maybe 4 plants ... jury nullification ... a warning from the prosecutor ... next jury may not be sympathetic ... yada, yada. Oh well. He's now on their radar. Any sales and he goes down hard. I don't think we've seen the last of him.
You aren't tough enough to be a real hippie.
The jury verdict is that growing (manufacturing) 46 marijuana plants is LEGAL. What are you going to do, arrest the jury because you hate the rule of law? Your true anarchist colors are showing. Don't you mean, "What are you going to do, arrest the jury because they hate the rule of law?" "The jury verdict is that growing (manufacturing) 46 marijuana plants is LEGAL." The jury verdict is that, despite federal and state laws to the contrary, they were not going to convict a "medical" marijuana grower. How do you explain the 46 plants?
How do you explain how prosecution of medical marijuana growing in Florida will change as a result. Every prosecutor will look at these cases as having changed from a slamdunk conviction to a question mark. And prosecutors don't like to lose cases. Nor do they want to be part of prosecutions in which juries nullify statutes on the books repeatedly. They hate it more than the judges do. Such prosecutions are changed now across Florida, perhaps some other states in the region too.
This was one jury, one case. And, for all we know, the vote could have been 11-1 to convict with one doper voting no. So I wouldn't read too much into it. Plus, I think medical marijuana is going to be on the Florida ballot soon.
So the 11 law-abiding Mister Whites on the jury debated the lone dirty hippie holdout for an entire half-hour before they gave in to his doped-up stubbornness? Article: "It took jurors just 30 minutes to return the verdict." The only reasonable explanation was a unanimous "not guilty". No large majority on a jury gives in to a holdout after only a half-hour. Especially not an 11-vote majority. No matter how dirty that hippie holdout is.
This is the breakdown of last November's medical marijuana vote in FL by age. Armed with the following info, even a minimally competent attorney could select a sympathetic jury. ___________________________________________________________________ Age => Yes / No 18-24 => 83% / 17% 25-29 => 75% / 25% 30-39 => 68% / 32% 40-49 => 63% / 37% 50-64 => 58% / 42% 65 + => 38% / 62% www.nbcnews .com/politics/elections/2014/FL/I1/exitpoll __________________________________________________________________ BTW, people over 70 are exempt from jury duty in FL. Face it, medical marijuana has come to Florida.
You seem rather confident that all of the juries will vote "Jury nullification" in the state of Florida. I highly doubt it. It's a BandAid to the gushing wound caused when someone willingly breaks a states law that we both know would be constitutionally upheld in the USSC. Why are pro drug activist so apposed to getting existing laws repealed? Why do I see 95% effort in breaking the laws and 5% effort in changing them with the pro drug groups? Should be a cinch, getting legal recreational weed passed with the voter stats you posted. Something tells me you don't have faith in your own numbers. lol Jury nullification, as a general practice, is a slippery slope. You didn't see the Homo activists butt slamming their boyfriends and getting out of sodomy charges by "Jury nullification", 50 years ago. They got the consensual sodomy laws repealed... and those pickle smoocher's were able to do all that before the general populace had HALF the support towards fags as you posted they have for weed. Stop wasting LE time... get the stuff legal for gosh sakes.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The badged gangbangers have been exposed as kidnappers and drug thieves. They might not get off so easy next time. If you just have to score some weed, grow your own, or buy it. A jury of your peers has decided that you're on the wrong side of the law.
2) If you just have to score some weed, grow your own, or buy it. A jury of your peers has decided that you're on the wrong side of the law. 1) anarchist, Ferguson type gibberish. Colorful propaganda is not fact. 2) This one jury nullification decided all that? How about you send me just a dollar for every marihuana conviction I find on the net in the state of Florida from today forward? I didn't think so. lol
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Full legalization in FL is probably a few years away. However, defacto medical mj is a fact of life, whether LE wants to admit it or not. It took a jury 30 minutes to acquit a guy with 46 MARIJUANA PLANTS!!! They told the prosecution to get effed. And I know that just chaps your hide and that of Florida LE => ___________________________________________________________________________ Sheriffs take lead against legalizing medical pot May 1, 2014 Florida's proposed medical marijuana amendment finally has a coordinated statewide opposition, led by the Florida Sheriffs Association and including a coalition of law enforcement and substance abuse groups. They are launching a campaign called "Don't Let Florida Go To Pot" to oppose Amendment 2, which would legalize marijuana for medical purposes. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-05-01/news/os-medical- marijuana-opponents-emerge-20140423_1_amendment-2-florida-sheriffs-association- law-enforcement ___________________________________________________________________________
I'm in favor of legalized marijuana. I've never stated to the contrary. Suck all the carcinogenic smoke in your lungs you like.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
I recall some flamebait lib writer back in the Nineties insisting he wanted to legalize everything (drugs including heroin, etc.) so that stupid people would die off faster so he could live longer and better and save money on taxes that would otherwise be spent on them because they would live longer and consume more medical care and more expensive medical care. It raised quite a kerfuffle at the time.
I see that today the Colorado sheriffs are filing federal lawsuit to strike down Colorado's on the grounds that it forces them to choose between enforcing Colorado's laws and federal law. I'm trying to decide if the Court, limping along on its dual crutches of legal standing and the Commerce Clause, will take up the case or just punt. Most often, the Court wants cases to "mature".
Even with legal medical marijuana, this guy would still be in court for possessing 46 plants. No medical marijuana state allows that. WTF was he doing with 46 plants? How did he justify that many? Was he selling to others? To underage kids?
Obviously not members of LEAP.
It's a distinct possibility.
Jury is the law. I was thinking that you promote law order. Now I am confused, it seems that if the law does not agree with you thirst for prosecution, persecution and punishment you turn against the law. Hmm, so want is your real life objective? A boot stamping on a human face - forever?
Jury verdict is the law. Stop whining and suck it up.
BTW, people over 70 are exempt from jury duty in FL White Massah is over 70
The difference in support by age group is striking. If I were a marijuana defendant in FL, I'd go for the youngest jury possible.
Well, their verdict is the law for that particular case. "I was thinking that you promote law order." I do. I never said nor implied that the actions of the jury were unlawful or unconstitutional. But I also believe in justice, and will always voice my opinion when it isn't served.
But according to you it happens when the law is more lenient than you desire. Otherwise the law takes precedence over justice. ==================== The Tarantulas Lo, this is the tarantula's den! Would'st thou see the tarantula itself? Here hangeth its web: touch this, so that it may tremble. There cometh the tarantula willingly: Welcome, tarantula! Black on thy back is thy triangle and symbol; and I know also what is in thy soul. Revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab; with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy! Thus do I speak unto you in parable, ye who make the soul giddy, ye preachers of equality! Tarantulas are ye unto me, and secretly revengeful ones! But I will soon bring your hiding-places to the light: therefore do I laugh in your face my laughter of the height. Therefore do I tear at your web, that your rage may lure you out of your den of lies, and that your revenge may leap forth from behind your word "justice." Because, for man to be redeemed from revenge—that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Otherwise, however, would the tarantulas have it. "Let it be very justice for the world to become full of the storms of our vengeance"—thus do they talk to one another. "Vengeance will we use, and insult, against all who are not like us"—thus do the tarantula-hearts pledge themselves. "And 'Will to Equality'—that itself shall henceforth be the name of virtue; and against all that hath power will we raise an outcry!" Ye preachers of equality, the tyrant-frenzy of impotence crieth thus in you for "equality": your most secret tyrant-longings disguise themselves thus in virtue-words! Fretted conceit and suppressed envy—perhaps your fathers' conceit and envy: in you break they forth as flame and frenzy of vengeance. What the father hath hid cometh out in the son; and oft have I found in the son the father's revealed secret. Inspired ones they resemble: but it is not the heart that inspireth them—but vengeance. And when they become subtle and cold, it is not spirit, but envy, that maketh them so. Their jealousy leadeth them also into thinkers' paths; and this is the sign of their jealousy—they always go too far: so that their fatigue hath at last to go to sleep on the snow. In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss. But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking. And when they call themselves "the good and just," forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but—power! My friends, I will not be mixed up and confounded with others. There are those who preach my doctrine of life, and are at the same time preachers of equality, and tarantulas. That they speak in favour of life, though they sit in their den, these poison-spiders, and withdrawn from life—is because they would thereby do injury. To those would they thereby do injury who have power at present: for with those the preaching of death is still most at home. Were it otherwise, then would the tarantulas teach otherwise: and they themselves were formerly the best world-maligners and heretic-burners. With these preachers of equality will I not be mixed up and confounded. For thus speaketh justice unto me: "Men are not equal."
You mean, "when Don't confuse my respect for "the law" with jury nullification.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
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#4. To: TooConservative (#3)
We now have a right to ignore all the laws we want to ignore
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
"Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested him last year for the cultivation and possession of 46 marijuana plants."
#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
46 MARIJUANA PLANTS???
#7. To: misterwhite (#5)
So what's he doing ... eating the plants for dinner?
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
"Compare it to eating a dinner salad of lettuce at every meal."
#9. To: misterwhite (#8)
I can see maybe 4 plants ...
#10. To: misterwhite (#5)
"Medical" marijuana is not even legal in Florida.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#11. To: hondo68 (#10)
"What are you going to do, arrest the jury because you hate the rule of law?"
#12. To: misterwhite (#11)
How do you explain the 46 plants?
#13. To: TooConservative (#12)
"How do you explain how prosecution of medical marijuana growing in Florida will change as a result."
#14. To: misterwhite, hondo68, nolu chan (#13)
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And, for all we know, the vote could have been 11-1 to convict with one doper voting no.
#15. To: misterwhite (#13)
#16. To: kenh (#15)
BTW, people over 70 are exempt from jury duty in FL. Face it, medical marijuana has come to Florida.
#17. To: GrandIsland, badged kidnappers, drug thieves, perps (#16)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#18. To: hondo68 (#17)
1) The badged gangbangers have been exposed as kidnappers and drug thieves. They might not get off so easy next time.
#19. To: GrandIsland (#16)
Stop wasting LE time... get the stuff legal for gosh sakes.
#20. To: kenh (#19)
And I know that just chaps your hide and that of Florida LE =>
#21. To: GrandIsland (#20)
I'm in favor of legalized marijuana. I've never stated to the contrary.
#22. To: kenh, GrandIsland (#19)
Florida's proposed medical marijuana amendment finally has a coordinated statewide opposition, led by the Florida Sheriffs Association and including a coalition of law enforcement and substance abuse groups.
#23. To: kenh (#15)
"This is the breakdown of last November's medical marijuana vote in FL by age."
#24. To: kenh (#19)
"Sheriffs take lead against legalizing medical pot"
#25. To: misterwhite (#23)
Even with legal medical marijuana, this guy would still be in court for possessing 46 plants.
#26. To: misterwhite, Gatlin (#8)
And the jury let him off.
#27. To: misterwhite (#11)
Don't you mean, "What are you going to do, arrest the jury because they hate the rule of law?"
#28. To: kenh (#15)
65 + => 38% / 62%
#29. To: A Pole (#28)
#30. To: A Pole (#26)
"Jury is the law."
#31. To: misterwhite (#30)
I also believe in justice, and will always voice my opinion when it isn't served.
#32. To: A Pole (#31)
"But according to you it happens when the law is more lenient than you desire."
the law jury nullification is more lenient than you desire".
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