Well, I had my hearing today on my motions filed for indigency and waiver of transcript fees in the Superior Court. It went fairly well. Some good news, some bad news, and some interesting insight into the mind of a Superior Court Judge bureaucrat:
Bad News: The motions were denied due to, mainly, there was no "exigent" circumstances which would give, I guess, justification for the County to be held responsible for the costs of my appeal. In other words, the fines levied did not exceed 750$ and there was no talk of jail time. So I have to pay the filing fee and transcription.
Good News: I moved that the Court stay the municipal court fines pending an appellate decision, given the nature of the appeal and high probability of a reversal, and this motion was granted. So they faxed an order down to the municipal thugs basically telling then to leave me alone until the appeal process is concluded.
The full unedited audio for the motion can be heard here:
http://pcti-system.com/Indigency.WAVThe interesting insight: I decided to utilize some of this time at the hearing to ask the Judge his beliefs and philosophy with regards to the idea of Jury Nullification.
I was asking him if he believes that Juries have not only the power, but the
right to nullify Laws if they feel them to be unjust.
Here are some of his statements:
"It's kind of a perversion of justice"
"I don't
fucking like it" (yes he did cuss on the record!)
"I don't think it's right"
"That's not right, the way it works during the trial is
I break the law down to the Jury and they decide according to the facts"
"It's important that
I give them what the Law is."
The full unedited audio can be found here:
http://pcti-system.com/Nullification.WAV