I was a Prosecutor for 25 years. I saw nullification perhaps, I dunno, 5 or 6 times. Some Prosecutors loathed it. Others, like myself, saw it as seeing it’s foundations in the fundamentals of our Constitution and Founding Fathers. It is THE absolute, 100% last and best defense against tyranny. Guns? Give me a break. They have tanks, drones and technology galore. But nullification? That they can never stop. That is the one and only thing that terrifies the State, both local and Federal.
I and others had great respect for it. Made for some pretty heated arguments in the cafeteria I can tell you.
There isn’t anything that can be done to prevent jury nullification should a jury wish to acquit a defendant. The legal issue concerns whether a party should be permitted to openly request it. The current answer is no.
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
Jury nullification is the last refuge of a citizeny against a corrupt judicial system. Short of rebellion.