“Criminal attempt is a crime whether you agree with such laws or not and it most certainly should be.”
Certainly true, unless I’m on the jury, then jury nullification comes into play. I won’t come out and say I’m not convicting him because I don’t agree with the law (as that would get me bounced off the jury) but will simply say, “I have a reasonable doubt”. Funny thing this is already a problem, I was on a jury pool that was selecting a jury for a prostitution solicitation case and the judge was very interested in quizzing the juror pool about who felt that prostitution should be legal and bouncing them off the jury, that tells me that this is happening more and more as people finally realize that half the laws on the books are total BS and unconstitutional.
It has become quite a problem in largely black areas as they are even less likely to convict a “brother” of actual, legitimate crimes now as they feel that the system is stacked against blacks. Especially if the victim is white/Asian (just look what happened in the Reginald Denny case, the white truck driver almost beaten to death during the LA riots, the preps walked because an all black jury wouldn’t convict even with overwhelming evidence).
I think that there is a breaking point in any society where there gets to be too many laws making too many everyday things against the law. People eventually will recognize that they are being scammed by the ruling elite and rebel against it in both passive (jury nullification), passive-aggressive (black market, shoot/shovel/shutup, looking the other way) and active (killing cops and authority figures). We are seeing all forms of that today as more and more people feel that the system is not fair and that they have nothing to lose. The rebellion is far more advanced in the black community but it will eventually spread to the other communities. I would rather see a return to some kind of sanity in our laws rather than this slow meltdown in civil order and disrespect for the law but I don’t see a lot of restraint in state/federal legislatures so I expect things to be worse.
I'm more for rule of law type myself. But that's just me.
You had better hope if someone victimizes you or your family someone who thinks like you do doesn't make it on the perp's jury. Imagine a hung jury or a not guilty verdict robbing you of justice due. You would have to accept it, of course, as you've taken the position that jury nullification is ok as long as those on the jury don't like the law.
Cheers.