Former GOP official says grand jury included Democrats(so it's unfair)

Boston.com
The Associated Press
Former GOP official says grand jury included Democrats
By Katharine Webster, Associated Press Writer
May 17, 2005

CONCORD, N.H. --A former Republican official says charges that he conspired to jam Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002 should be dismissed because the grand jury that indicted him included Democrats.

The grand jury "included purported victims of the alleged scheme -- Democrats," said a motion filed by James Tobin, who at the time was the Northeast political director of the national Republican Senatorial Committee. He was indicted in December.

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Federal prosecutors countered that Tobin is required to prove actual bias by the grand jury: He cannot ask judges to assume that Democrats would indict based on their political convictions, anymore than judges can assume Republicans would indict Democrats in violation of their oath to look only at the evidence.

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Tobin is accused of telling Chuck McGee, former executive director of the state Republican Party, that former GOP consultant Allen Raymond could help with McGee's plan to jam five phone lines set up by the Democratic Party and a ride-to-the-polls line operated by the Manchester firefighters union. Raymond then hired a telemarketing firm to make hundreds of hang-up calls.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/05/17/former_gop_official_says_grand_jury_included_democrats/

decide the 2000 election because there were Republicans on the court.

but we all know that they get a whole seperate set of rules, don't they?

In the old English legal system no commoner could sit on a jury to judge a member of Nobility.

You couldn't have any Republicans on the jury either. They may have benefited from his actions and be pleased by them.

republicans on his jury? Why didn't his lawyer make that so?

Typical repuke whiner..things aren't going his way so he pisses and moans that it's anybody's but his fault.

Sounds like bush.

GET OVER IT!

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Let's take it a step further. Humans would be unable to sit on juries for murder cases?

If the jury included Democratic candidates or members of the state Democratic party leadership, he might have a valid point, but otherwise...