A U.S. District Judge has granted an injunction allowing activists in Denver to continue handing out jury nullification literature on courthouse grounds, providing they don’t damage the landscaping, reports The Denver Post.
The injunction was granted on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed earlier this month on behalf of the Fully Informed Jury Association and two citizens.
Attempts at Jury Nullification. Image Credit: George Donnelly (Flickr)
Judge William Martinez determined that the order at the Lindsey-Flanigan courthouse indented to prevent violence following the Dexter Lewis death penalty was too restrictive.
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Civil rights attorney David Lane filed the lawsuit after two men were charged with jury tampering. They had been distributing jury nullification pamphlets to potential jurors.
The suit named the city, Denver police Chief Robert White and Chief Judge Michael Martinez, who last week ordered public demonstrations to be barred on the court grounds.
However, since the lawsuit was filed, city lawyer Scott Martinez has advised police to stop arresting the activists.
Martinez said in his order granting the injunction, that jury nullification information is protected speech. He wrote:
“There appears to be no contest on this point.”
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