CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, July 13, 2024 — The juror in the Ray Rzeplinski criminal case starting July 30 has a duty under God to vote his conscience and to judge the facts and the law.
You have a right under Tenn. const. art. 1, sect. 19, to judge the law and declare it, by voting not guilty, irrelevant to the facts alleged.
The last provision says this, in the context of press investigations of public doings, wherein the facts of the report are judged by the jury, as well as the law.
“[A]nd in all indictments for libel, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other criminal cases.”
Mr. Rzeplinski faces 1,270 years in prison because he would not accept a plea bargain and would not yield to coercion with a federal prosecutor’s in the Solomon building downtown.
Hamilton County District attorney Coty Wamp and staff prosecutrix Nicole Evans are behind the case and committed to it in light of the bias of past investment. Having spent so much time and effort on the botch of a case, they won’t let themselves dismiss it. The case arises out of personal acts of malice, Mr. Rzeplinski says, emanating from the marriage of a sheriff’s deputy to Mr. Rzeplinski’s ex-wife.
The prosecutors will try to duck the issue of his “knowing” he is a felon, which is a defense. They allege he knew he was a felon and “intentionally” possessed weapons, including one formerly banned under state law (short-barreled rifle). The defense of knowing differently should “estop” the case.
The owner of Ray’s Plumbing in Chattanooga knows he’s not a felon. Curing the felony allegations are original and renewed concealed carry gun permits from the department of safety and homeland security, OKs by the TBI for retail gun purchases and a plumber’s license to prove his state of mind.
Please pray for Mr. Rzeplinski, his lawyer Ben McGowan and the state actors involved in this case. And share this file — and subscribe. No charge.
Juror's duty to acquit Plumber Ray in vicious prosecution