Jury nullification got OJ off.
Empowered citizen juries would undermine the prestige and power of attornies; therefore, they must be gelded.
“Jury nullification got OJ off.”
And for the sake of one jury that was making a race-based rebuttal to the establishment, we should dismiss the power and rights of the jury to seek justice? That is silly.
In important ways, the independent jury is a Fourth Branch of our Constitutional Republic. The reason is that no person can be convicted of a serious crime unless their offense is voted on by two citizen juries, the grand for indictment and the petit jury at trial.
The jury’s verdict is generally considered sacrosanct and it is the final wall that prevents runaway government. When government decrees that a jury only can have the power to decide the facts, then government could make breathing a felony and the jury would only be allowed to decide of the defendant had been breathing. It is essential that the jury be free to convict or acquit as it sees fit as a consequence of what was presented to it.
In essence, the role of the jury is to convict those who are truly guilty of the crime charged (in all what that implies), or to refuse to convict.
see: www.fija.org.
So..
When it goes to trial, will he be requesting a jury trial?