If you want to participate in jury nullification, it's imperative that you do your research and know how to conduct yourself. It's not as simple as just making sure you never say "jury nullification" within hearing range of the court room. And doing your due diligence isn't as simple as reading some surface-level web pages about how jury nullification works.
The first thing you need to know is that this is exceedingly difficult. If you get summoned, don't get summarily dismissed, get through voir dire and onto the jury -- here there are already three distinct stages, and passing each of them is its own small miracle. That's before you even get to the part where you convince the rest of the jury to go along with it, which you have to do without saying the words. You also have to appear to be earnestly engaged in doing your duty as a juror properly. Obstinance is cause for dismissal and contempt, so just sitting there and saying "not guilty" for no reason and refusing to explain yourself or change your position may not go as well as you might think. You have to actually play the game, go along with the process, and bring up reasonable and compelling questions and concerns about the state's burden of proof.
Regarding voir dire: Here's one area where you'll need to have done in-depth research. If you haven't even googled things like "detecting deception during voir dire" or "how to identify a stealth juror" -- if you haven't read all the material you can get your hands on that gives advice to attorneys about the nuances of juror vetting and selection -- then you haven't spent enough time knowing your enemy, and you will fail. If you haven't heard of a "stealth juror" before, you are out of your depth and you will fail. If it hasn't occurred to you that the attorneys might look you up online (they will) to see if you've posted anything that conflicts with what you tell them in court, then you have probably already failed before you even started.
You will basically need to be in deep cover with regard to your knowledge of and inclination toward jury nullification. It's not even as easy as just pretending you've never heard of it. That can end up being too much of a good thing, too hard to believe, depending. In a similar way, they don't necessarily want to hear that you're some kind of totally impartial person with no opinions about anything, no biases. Everyone has those; what they want is people who can set them aside to do the job they've been given. It's surely not an easy balance to strike, seeming like you're someone who will be a good juror, while making sure you also give the appearance of being a realistic and believable person, and avoiding a host of little reasons why they might decide to use one of their peremptory strikes on you (if you don't know what that is, you haven't done enough research and will fail).
You'll also need the same obsessive depth of familiarity with the entire process, voir dire to verdict, that someone would have if they actually were some kind of deep cover clandestine agent sent to infiltrate a jury. You will need to accomplish this without ever talking to anyone about your interest in this subject. You have to be either very dedicated or very lucky.
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Americans are shit at saluting straight without considerable practice
Yeah lol, he did the whole thing. Looks a lot like he turns around just to salute what I assumed was a flag in the backdrop somewhere, but supposedly there were more people back there. But still, who does the whole thing? Actually, first, why do it after and not as an accent during the speech act? I think his gestures and words aren't typically disjointed so this is interesting. Who feels the need to suck in their lower lip to do a "heart goes out" gesture? This is an "I'm about to be edgy / go for it" face, not a "heart love beam" face. During his brief expression right before he starts speaking again, he comes off rather pleased with himself.
Your cover band was delivered a cease and desist demand letter
Actually, I believe you'll find, if you refer to the title, that it is a movie about two days after its time
Yes, these are documented features and not some kind of obscure off-label workaround. What I mean is that the use of these features serves as a workaround (or, if you like, an "alternative") when simple mouse selection should work but behaves erratically.
Have you ever tried just using forward slashes anyway? It works more or less some of the time.
Annoying little quirks of text highlighting and navigation. Oopsie, you moved an extra quarter of a centimeter to the left of the paragraph you tried to highlight starting from the bottom. That means you want everything, right? Yeah we're highlighting everything. And so on.
Fortunately I've picked up some workarounds over the years:
Trying to highlight text in a hyperlink: hold alt
Methods of selecting text blocks (e.g., when normal mouse-select is doing bizarre stuff):
- Try highlighting from end to beginning
- Click point A, hold shift, click point B
- Double-click first word of desired selection to highlight it, or triple-click a paragraph, then highlight letters with shift-right, words with ctrl-shift-right, lines with shift-down, paragraphs with ctrl-shift-down. You'll see that, for example, when you use shift-down, some text on the line following the selected line is also selected, corresponding to the length of the initial selection before the hotkey was pressed. You can use relevant combos in the opposite direction to de-select this. Or press shift-end to highlight only to the end of the line where your current selection ends, and shift-home to deselect to the beginning of the line. Ctrl-shift-end/home will do the same but for the entire page/document.
- Some other useful hotkeys are available during text input -- I make heavy use of shift+pgup/pgdn to extend selections, but this seems to work in Excel, Notepad++, etc., not in this web browser text input field, for example. Holding shift while clicking also extends selections as in the read-only context; holding ctrl while clicking arbitrarily adds to selection just as in the file browser.
I can see the Matrix, man, I can see the truth behind it all, I can interpret raw markdown and even write bbCode by hand