Not someone who is simply told to report for jury duty, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday as it overturned the jury tampering conviction of a man in western Michigan. He told two women they could choose their conscience over the law if they were picked to serve on a jury. Wood was charged with jury tampering, under a 1955 law, and convicted of a misdemeanor. In a dissenting opinion, Justice David Viviano said the majority’s opinion was an “absurd result,” quoting from a 2015 court decision in a tampering case in Maine. Attorney David Kallman also made a free speech argument on behalf of Wood, but the court decided the case on other grounds.