[harpseal]

The jury is the final judge of both law and facts. Please refer to the facts of the case of John Peter Zenger and his trial before a crown court and how that influenced the framing of our Federal Constitution. What it means is that if the law is obviously unjust or unconstitutional a juror should not vote to convict.

[Boot Hill]

harpseal says:   "The jury is the final judge of both law and facts."

The proof of this truth is that we even have a jury system in the first place.

The jury system would be totally unnecessary if the founding fathers had not intended there to one last "fire break" between the people and unjust prosecutions or unconstitutional laws. If this had not been the intent of the jury system, the Sixth Amendment would simply have required a trial before a panel of judges or governors.

--Boot Hill