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To: Roscoe
The relevant sentence from that article:

Both sides agreed that juries, whose deliberations are secret and cannot be reviewed, have the power to nullify laws by at times ignoring them.

Both sides AGREE that jurors have the power to nullify. The defeat of the amendment doesn't change that. The amendment would have allowed the defendant to ask for nullification by admitting that s/he did what they are charged with, but declaring that the law is wrong.

That is different from the debate at hand.

358 posted on 03/12/2003 7:14:48 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: savedbygrace
The state has a right to bar jury nullification screeds from the court and to refuse to seat potential jurors who it knows intend to not follow the law. Certainly, a FIJA cultist has the de facto power decieve the court and defraud the public.
359 posted on 03/12/2003 7:18:48 PM PST by Roscoe
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