Jury Nullification is the entire reason we have Jury’s. Its the last check on the legal system. A person can be completely in violation of the letter of the law, and still be consciously set free. This is the check valve to prevent the letter of the law from trumping the spirit of the law.
For example, if I were on a jury for a parent who in cold blood executed the person who abused their child, I would never in a million years convict this person for their actions. Did they violate the letter of the law? Absolutely. Did they act in a way that I believe most sane and rational parents would not act in the same situation? Absolutely. I will not send a parent to jail for protecting their child and ridding the world of a threat, no matter the letter of the law.
Exactly.
If Juries worked they way they were supposed to, guys like John Couey wouldn’t be sitting in prison. He would be dead because the jury would not have allowed evidence of earlier crimes to be tossed out. In fact the animal’s sister and brother in law would have likely gone to trial as well.
Right, and then lawyers try to subvert this with the “selection process”
Correction. Never in a million years would you be seated as a juror.