{"id":954,"date":"2003-07-08T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/08\/should-jurors-pledge-to-us\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T22:32:28","slug":"should-jurors-pledge-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/08\/should-jurors-pledge-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Jurors Pledge to US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a214'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>In a case in Denver Federal District Court, to begin a jury selection<br \/>\n        session, the judge led all of the prospective jurors in reciting the Pledge<br \/>\n        of Allegiance (to the United States, the plantiff in the case). His next<br \/>\n        words, asking prosecutors if they were ready to begin jury selection:&quot;Is<br \/>\n        the United States of America ready to proceed?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Frank Herbert Wonschik, 46, was convicted of possessing parts to convert<br \/>\n        a semiautomatic rifle into an illegal machine gun and sentenced to 27<br \/>\n        months in prison . Now his lawyer is asking for a retrial on the grounds<br \/>\n        that Jurors cannot be asked to pledge allegiance to one of the parties<br \/>\n        in a court case&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/2317352\/detail.html\">From<br \/>\n        Channel 7, Denver<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case in Denver Federal District Court, to begin a jury selection session, the judge led all of the prospective jurors in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (to the United States, the plantiff in the case). His next words, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/08\/should-jurors-pledge-to-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}