Leniency Is For the Powerful [Idaho]
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/03/leniency-is-for-powerful.html
During jury deliberations Asher expressed her views to the other jurors and urged that they vote to acquit the suspect. Chastised for refusing to follow the judge’s precise instructions, Asher pointed out that it is the jury, not the judge, that is entrusted with the power to decide not only the facts of the case, but also to rule on the justice of the law. She also pointed out that District Judge John Bradbury, august as he may be, is not the supreme authority.
One of Asher’s fellow jurors, driven by the perverse yet irresistible urge to tattle, relayed those comments — made in the supposedly unassailable privacy of jury deliberations — to the prosecutor. After the defendant was acquitted, the prosecutor, his lust to imprison somebody unappeased, filed felony perjury charges against Asher — with the enthusiastic support of the same Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.
