"Juries are made up today of people who could care less about what the Law says" "Like it or not, that's as it should be.
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Have you been on Jury Duty lately?
My experience clearly showed that the bias in favor of like-skinned defendants, the bias AGAINST any Corporate defendent, and the bias in favor of female defendants CLEARLY SHOWED that disregard of facts, disregard of the Law, and disregard for Common Sense permeate today's Juries.
There is NO WAY that which John Jay said in defense of common sense can be mis-constured to include today's practices. His remarks were at a time when honesty, citizenship, family, God, and trust were words that people lived by.
I don't care which way it's parsed; common sense is gone in today's society of Progressives.
You aren't saying anything that negates the fact that juries can acquit if they please no matter what the law says.
SAMUEL CHASE (1804): The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1920): The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and the facts.
U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has...."unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge."
Sorry but a jury trial isn't supposed to hand down the verdict you or I agree with. Its just a simple straightforward fact.