Judge Declares a Mistrial in Case Against Cannabis Church Leaders | The Marijuana Times

Judge Declares a Mistrial in Case Against Cannabis Church Leaders | The Marijuana Times

Denver County Court Judge Fred Rodgers – declared a mistrial after prosecutors were unable to seat a 6-person jury. For 2 hours both sides jockeyed to seat the jurors they wanted, but in the end only 5 potential jurors remained. Four prospective jurors openly questioned the prosecutor on bringing the case in the first place. “I’ve never seen that,” the defendants’ attorney Warren C. Edson said of the people that questioned the prosecution’s theory during jury selection. “Hopefully this is a wake-up call for the city that this (case) isn’t the open-and-shut matter that they think that it is.”