A truly free people MUST have the right of juror nullification. I didn’t believe that in my youth. I understand the wisdom and necessity of it now that I am older and have seen how corrupt laws can be so easily created by a government that has lost its respect for the people it is supposed to serve.
Living without jury nullification has given us things like mandatory sentencing, zero tolerance, inadmissible evidence etc. Sometimes they’re good but the jury should decide that, not some law that was written without consideration of each individual case.
In effect we have a situation where a jury is just for show if they’re only doing what the court tells them to do.