User talk:Anarchman/Laura kriho

This should be a real article. What gives?

Pasting this here as a reference Anarchman. I've never worked on this article.

Circa 1996, Laura Kriho was the sole juror holdout in a drug possession trial, one eventually declared a mistrial. Kriho was found in contempt of court and charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for learning from the Internet that the defendant could face a four- to twelve-year prison term if convicted, a fact that had not been disclosed to the jury by the court.[32] Additionally, while not asked about her opinions about the fairness of the drug laws or her own prior legal history, she was prosecuted for obstruction of justice for failing to volunteer this information on her own.[33] The trial court found "that Kriho had intended to obstruct the judicial process and that her actions had prevented the seating of a fair and impartial jury",[34] but after four years of legal battles the charges were eventually dropped after a district court ruled that her statements during secret jury deliberations could not be used against her.[35] It has been argued that improved protection of the holdout juror is a necessary and critical component to the preservation of a defendant's right to a fair trial.[36]

The above is the last part of this article section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_United_States#Court_rulings

Metalibertarian (talk) 01:15, 20 November 2014 (UTC)