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To: AnAmericanMother
Guys - that's dangerous territory.

Ask me if I care. We have a jury system. Jury instructions are not part of the Constitution. They are usually a set of rules that the Attorneys and the Judge agree upon to give to the jury, but the jury is not bound by them. They are bound only by their oath to do justice. And they are not going to be punished if they violate that oath because they are drafted into the position and they are not paid. It is a community service and until we have professional jurors with criminal penalties for not following jury instructions, juries are free to convict the innocent and free the guilty. But you need 12 like minded individuals to convict the innocent, so it ain't likely to happen unless the jury is instructed to do something stupid, like disregard the defendant's confession that he murdered 20 people before he insisted he didn't murder the person he is on trial for murdering. I think I might ignore the jury instructions on that one.

37 posted on 04/29/2010 12:32:44 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
‘I think I might ignore the jury instructions on that one’

So the judge will throw out your verdict, based on the law..

139 posted on 04/29/2010 4:08:21 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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