This is your government, part 2

My ongoing chronicle of gross government misconduct:

My friend used to work for the DA's office. He told me about a case where a woman wrote incorrect information on her driver's license application. Apparently she transposed her birth day and birth month. Easy enough, I figured. A girl lied to make herself 21. That would be too simple, wouldn't it? It was a 54 year old woman who made herself three months older. She was also in the middle of a legal name change....having had the pleasure, I can tell you that half of your stuff is in one name, and half in the other. She used her old name on the license.

The result of this horrible criminal conduct? A perjury charge, and an offer of one year in jail. Ironically, I am willing to bet the prosecutor thought he was being a nice guy by charging one count instead of two. Apparently, the maximum in CA for such a grave offense against society is five years.

This woman was paying taxes and living her life, and now faces an unimaginable hell behind bars and for what? A simple, common mistake, that couldn't have been anything but.

And yet, the legal elite tell us that the constitutional right to a jury nullification is against the law, and to argue for it is against the rules of ethics.

Any prosecutor or judge who abides this positive law run amok horror would have been just as happy working in a fascist regime.