[djf]

In fact the Supreme Court assumed they could judge the law.

It was an appealable error of the court if they did not so instruct the jury, until a case, I think it was Sparf, Hanson vs US, decided in 1895

[cripplecreek]

It was an appealable error of the court if they did not so instruct the jury, until a case, I think it was Sparf, Hanson vs US, decided in 1895

And in that case the supremes didn't rule that the rights of the jury don't exist, only that the jury need not be informed of those rights.

Kind of interesting that a suspect must be informed of their rights upon arrest but a juror deciding if the law was broken isn't informed of theirs.