>>I assume, by the way, you are perfectly comfortable with plaintiffs receiving large verdicts in personal injury cases?
Someone spills coffee on their lap and gets a $100 million verdict. Totally cool with you?<<
Quite the opposite.
In both the cases I was on, it was ambulance chaser lawsuits, and in superior court. In both cases the plaintiff lost. In one of those cases I was a driving factor in the jury room.
I had a similar experience where two jurors wanted to give plantiff an award because the felt sorry for her and after all, the insurance comapny was paying. Myself and another juror believed she had not proved her case and was probably lying based on other tstimony. The eight others were somewhere in between. Eventually everyone agreed she had no case, but the two jurors still wanted her to get something. They eventually came around. Myself and that other juror were instrumental in preventing a miscarriage of justice.
Granted, that’s not the same as jury nullification, but it shows the imporatance we can all make doing our duty as jurors trying to serve justice.