LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: …As a former public defender in Philadelphia, [Northampton County Prosecutor Tatum] Wilson said, she tried a marijuana delivery case in which the jury came back with a not-guilty verdict. Talking to jurors afterward, they were “incensed” that authorities had pursued the charges, Wilson said.
“One actually said to the prosecutor, ‘We wasted our time for this?'” Wilson remembered…
Her boss, Morganelli, said that if juries started to routinely nullify marijuana prosecutions, he would have to rethink his office’s approach to the cases. But absent that or action by the Legislature to decriminalize pot, Morganelli said it is his job to enforce the statutes… (more)
EDITOR: Although officials don’t like to talk about it, juries have the Constitutional right to acquit regardless of the evidence.
If we prosecuted bank and corporate fraud as vigorously as people using marijuana, then we would be doing something worth while.