{"id":16470,"date":"2016-09-06T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/?p=16470"},"modified":"2016-09-06T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:19:47","slug":"oliver-johnson-fined-not-appearing-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/oliver-johnson-fined-not-appearing-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Johnson fined for not appearing in Court."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Abolitionist Asks to be Excused from Serving on the Jury . &#8212; In the Supreme Court, New York, on Thursday, Mr. Oliver Johnson, the editor of the <em>National Anti-Slavery Standard<\/em>, having been summoned as a juror in this Court, presented the following reasons for being excused from service, endorsed on the back of the summons: &#8212;\u00a0 \u2018The within named party asks to be excused from the service to which he is herein summoned, on the ground that he is held by public opinion to be crazy, 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