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To: Lurker
"Your duty as a juror is to judge both the facts and the law."

Not according to the laws in my state, and what little research I did on the laws of other states didn't turn up any support for such a claim either (no matter what FIJA says). Neither judges NOR jurors are legislators.

262 posted on 03/12/2003 1:20:02 PM PST by MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
Neither judges NOR jurors are legislators.

Great quote!

263 posted on 03/12/2003 1:24:53 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: MEGoody
"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice
U.S. Supreme Court, 1789

"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts."
Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Justice,
1796, Signer of the unanimous Declaration

"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice,
U.S. Supreme Court, 1941
264 posted on 03/12/2003 1:25:58 PM PST by Protagoras
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