Kentucky Jury Fines Gay Couple Over Protest

[Lucky]

After 3 hours of testimony in a jury trial, two Kentucky gay men were fined one penny for protesting their inability to get a marriage license.

According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, "Dominique James and the Rev. Maurice “Bojangles” Blanchard all but admitted on the witness stand Tuesday that they’d broken the law by staying in the Jefferson County Clerk’s office after closing time — protesting when they were denied a marriage license."

They turned down a plea bargain offering to drop the charges in return for five hours of community service, and went to trial, where they risked a $250 fine. Instead, they received the smallest fine in state history.

Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20131126/NEWS10/311260040/Louisville-gay-couple-s-marriage-license-protest-ends-trespassing-verdict-fined-1-cent?gcheck=1

[MsGuy]

Interesting case of jury nullification.

But did the jury action show an inclination of sympathy with the couple's wish to get married,

or demonstrate a libertarian bent common among Kentucky folks.

or show a certain awe of whack-a-doodles acting out their incomprehensible but God inspired religious principles?

[Guest zipperzone]

What an unbelievable waste of taxpayers money.....

[Guest justme1369]

As a Kentucky boy it (the guilty verdict) was for none of the reasons you mention, it was simply because they were guilty...but this jury tempered there verdict with a sense of fairness.. And yes zipperzone it ...like so many things in my beloved Kentucky was a waste of money and the courts attention.