I felt an overwhelming need to understand why juries were finding innocent people guilty of not filing a tax return when there was no law requiring them to do so. So, I went to talk to Massey Brooks, a juror who used common sense and did not allow the judge to reroute the jury into a guilty verdict. He was being tried for four counts of not filing his income tax and our question was, well, what is there to decide? Either he did or he didn't. It never occurred to us that he might actually be innocent while at the same time not filing with the federal government. It is not a felony not to file taxes. Finally, they said, "Okay, if we're gonna get this guy, we're gonna have to put it in the state." They called up the IRS agent, Craner, or maybe cleaner. This is Ken Dorsey, he's also an investigator with the Department of Revenue. There's a request for a copy of the delegation in the early order, right? And I talked to my boss about that and he said that my badge is my authority. The last question that the defense asked him was, "Did you write any of this down?" And Agent Craner looked right at him and right at us and he said, "I never wrote anything down." And yet, when we saw the video, there he was writing notes. You know, and so I'm thinking, "Okay, at this point, the judge is supposed to say, 'Agent Craner, it is clear that you have committed perjury.'" It wasn't even noticed. It finally came to the climax. Mr. Harold looked right at the prosecutor and he said, "I will tell you the same thing I have told over and over again to government...
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