Defend Our Juries

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Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice.

We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms.

www.defendourjuries.net

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Colleen Molloy, 70, a retired educator from Leicester: "I'm here today because I wish to expose government hypocrisy.  I agree with Miliband when he said Palestine protesters were right. Young people from Palestine Action acting with love to stop a genocide are not terrorists.”

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BREAKING 15 people face arrest outside Elbit’s UAV-Tactical Systems factory in Leicester for peacefully holding signs. The Israeli Elbit owned factory on the doorstep of Leicester residents makes and exports parts for Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

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Because judges are employed by the State, and the State doesn’t want people of conscience who dissent against unjust laws to be acquitted. Blocking this principle from jurors, often with threat of prosecution, is corrupt and undemocratic. The jury decides, not the judge. 2/2

Traffic passes by the signholders in the first image described in this post.A second image of row of peaceful sign-holders sitting in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.
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Jury Equity Centuries ago, this legal principle enshrined in law the absolute right of jurors to acquit (find not-guilty) a defendant according to their conscience. It’s proudly carved in stone inside the Old Bailey. Yet judges are lying to jurors about this right. Why? 1/2

A row of peaceful sign-holders sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.As traffic passes by, a lone man sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. His sign also displays the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience”
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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Four Dutch supporters travelled to Liverpool to participate in a peaceful signholding action outside the Labour conference. One was arrested under the Terrorism Act on arrival in the UK. A second was arrested for having shoe repair glue in their bag.

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IT’S A GENOCIDE This Jewish woman was arrested under the Terrorism Act outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for peacefully holding a sign. Her sign stated “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action”.

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