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Radiolab

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today, a hidden power that is either the cornerstone of our democracy or a trapdoor to anarchy. Should a juror be able to ignore the law? From a Quaker prayer meeting in the streets of London, to riots in the streets of LA, we trace the history of a quiet act of rebellion and struggle with how much power “we the people” should really have. Produced by Matt Kielty and Tracie Hunte Special thanks to Darryl K. Brown, professor of law at the University of Virginia, Andrew Leipold, professor of law at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, Nancy King, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, Buzz Scherr law professor at University of New Hampshire, Eric Verlo and attorneys David Lane, Mark Sisto, David Kallman and Paul Grant. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, just a quick note. This story that you're about to hear has in it an interview that contains some threats of violence might not be appropriate for sensitive listeners or young children.
0:12.9	Wait, you're listening. Okay. All right. Okay.
0:17.8	All right.
0:19.2	You're listening to Radio Lab
0:21.5	From W-N-Y-C
0:24.7	C.
0:25.6	See?
0:29.8	Now for some reason, this speakerphone doesn't ever want to go off.
0:35.6	Can you guys call me right back and I won't put it on?
0:38.3	Um, okay.
0:39.2	All right. Sorry about that.
0:47.7	Hey, I'm Chad Abumran. I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab. And today...
0:51.3	Today we have a story about something that you might not know that you have, but you definitely do have it.
0:58.8	Yeah, sort of a crazy... Maybe even scary. Maybe scary.
1:02.6	Even secret. A crazy, scary secret...
1:05.8	Hello?
1:06.4	Hello?
1:07.8	Power.
1:08.4	Hey, Sauron.
1:09.1	And it comes to us from our producer's Tracy Hunt. Are you there? And Soren Wheeler. Yeah, I'm here. Okay. No speakerphone now. Okay. So this story for us got started with this woman, Laura Crejo. I am a freelance internet marketer. She's from Colorado. And in the mid-90s, something happened to Laura that hadn't happened to anyone in centuries.
1:28.9	So we'll just, why don't you just take us back to 1996, the day you got your jury summons,
1:35.0	that very first one.
	...

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