Brian Thiede, the prosecuting attorney for Mecosta County, Michigan, wants to put Keith Wood in jail for handing out pamphlets. Yet Thiede says the pamphlets are perfectly legal, and so is handing them out.
The solution to this riddle lies in Thiede’s interpretation of Michigan’s jury tampering statute, which he says turns constitutionally protected speech into a crime. If the Michigan Court of Appeals agrees, Jacob Sullum says, it will be giving officials like Thiede a versatile tool to censor and punish people who offend them.
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