[TigersEye]

You are dissembling.

Of course it is not legally optional to abide by the law, Constitutional or not. (There is such a thing as civil disobedience and to paraphrase T. Jefferson "Disobedience to tyrants is obediance to God.") I have simply pointed out that the law as it stands in this case is unConstitutional. And you seem to oppose that position.

Jury nullification is legal and informing a jury of that is not only legal but a duty of the court. The judge in this case has flouted both his duty and the law by suppressing that information when the defense attorney tried to introduce it. You seem to be applauding his unlawfullness.

[nopardons]

Southern juries, repeatedly used jury nullification to free lynchers. The O.J. jury used jury nullification to set free a murderer. Jury nullification has been and is used, in many notorious Bronx courthouses, to free all sorts of criminals, because both perp and jury are nonwhite.

You aren't advocating doing something " noble ".Neither are you the resident Constitutional expert; I doubt that you are much of an " expert " on Constitutional law . You just don't happen to like this one. " Civil disobedience " ? Yeah ... that's the answer to everything; right, un hunh, ROTFLMSO !

[Bonaparte]

I said nothing about the constitutionality of the specific law in question, ie. the federal law against marijuana cultivation, etc. I simply said that it is the law, just or not, constitutional or not. I further said that the arbiter in such disputes is the USSC, not "some guy."

Don't get me wrong, TE. IMO, the SC has misbehaved plenty, especially in the past 65 years or so. But the principle of judicial review is well established and unless you're an anarchist, you have to recognize that.

The defense tried to introduce irrelevancies about state law in an attempt to prejudice the jury in a trial concerning federal law. He was warned not to do this and was in contempt to disregarding the judge's perfectly proper instruction. And btw, no judge is under any legal compulsion to inform a jury about nullification options.