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A Colorado Springs municipal court jury Tuesday gave Douglas Bruce the holiday present he asked for: acquittal on a trespass charge stemming from an attempt to gather petition signatures at a Costco store.
The five-woman, one-man jury took about three hours to find Bruce and fellow anti-tax activist Doug Stinehagen not guilty of the misdemeanor charge.
Bruce had asked the jurors to defend their right to petition as a way to limit government by acquitting them.
“In this holiday season I’m asking that you give all the people of Colorado Springs a gift of freedom,” Bruce told the jury at the end of a 3-day trial.
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