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To: Gordongekko909

Yep. Juries don't get to decide questions of law. They get to decide questions of fact. And they may determine that the accused did not commit the crime with which he is charged.

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That’s what statist judges want people to think. However, the truth is the jury has the power and the duty to judge of both the law as well as the fact in controversy.


82 posted on 02/18/2006 6:05:54 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA
That’s what statist judges want people to think. However, the truth is the jury has the power and the duty to judge of both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

Except... no. If the jury does anything aside from act as a trier of fact, they have to do it under the radar. It's the legislature's job to make laws, and judges' job to interpret them. Any duty that a jury has to make judgments of law comes from some "higher law" source, not from anything you'll actually find in a statute.

83 posted on 02/18/2006 6:08:48 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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