Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.