NHJury.com is sponsoring an ongoing contest looking for Great Ideas to help kick-start the organization. We have $500, provided by the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund. We will award up to $50 for ideas that we like. Here are the ideas we like this week, and the amount of money awarded:
smashley suggested that we organize a music festival to raise money and awareness. We’re not sure exactly how to pull this off, but the idea definitely has potential. This idea earned smashley 50 bucks.
budvoss suggested that we hand out pamphlets at the DMV. Since the jury pool is selected from voter rolls and DMV licenses, this would allow us to reach people who might not otherwise be exposed to our outreach at courtrooms. budvoss gets 20 bucks for this idea.
Magic Mist suggested outreach similar to the Stamp Stampede movement where supporters could stamp dollar bills with “Google jury nullification” or some other message that would expose people to our message. That idea is worth 20 bucks. Magic Mist has asked that Rich Paul receive the award.
Any suggested that we identify activists in the New Hampshire jury nullification movement and host pages with the activists’ information with the ability for supporters to send donations directly to the activist. For this, Any gets 20 bucks.
Darryl Perry suggested that the Executive Director and board members of NH Jury go to Concord to testify at committee hearings where jury nullification legislation is discussed. Thanks for the idea, Daryl! It’s worth a Jackson.
Finally, Danny Sprinkle came up with a clever idea that at first seems counterproductive. Danny suggested that we create a flyer titled, “How to Get Out of Jury Duty”. For most people the desire to get out of jury duty is orders of magnitude greater than the desire to get on a jury to do justice. Playing the role of Trojan Horse, the flyer could be filled with information explaining jury nullification and the juror’s power to judge the law as well as facts, and how judges don’t like this kind of subversion in their courtrooms. The flyer would then provide helpful instructions on how to get yourself dismissed: “Show this flyer to the judge” or “Tell the court that ‘I will judge the law'”.One idea would be to hand these out at the courthouse on jury selection day and video record. The authorities will go nuts. Sooner or later judges may start to get wise to this transparent ruse and force those who use it to serve on juries. Brilliant. For this, Danny gets 30 bucks.
Keep those Great Ideas coming. We’ll accept any idea, but if you have ideas on how to raise money, you’ll could be awarded more money.
And if you have lots of Great Ideas and some time, our Executive Director position is still open. It’s a paid position, by the way. You could do well by doing good!
NHJury.com has been around for a few years, but really hasn’t done much more than cover the jury nullification scene and passed out some flyers.
Jury Nullification, particularly in New Hampshire, is starting to become quite a movement, and we felt that it was time to scale up the operation so we can tell more potential jurors about their natural right of nullification.
Recently, we formed a Board of Directors and we are looking for some Great Ideas for getting this organization started.
Our friends at the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund have offered us a $1,000 grant to jump-start NHJury.com, plus another $500 as an incentive for people to give us ideas that we can use to raise funds and get the word out about jury nullification.
Any idea is welcome, but if you want the 50 bucks, your idea should include a plan for raising funds.
We could use some help here. Go to http://nhjury.com/greatideas if you have an idea about fundraising or getting the word out. You can win up to $50 worth of FRNs, silver, or bitcoin.
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