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To: djf

Yeah, I understand. Directions by the judge, etc. ....there still is such a thing as jury nullification, regardless of what a judge, or a misapplied law for that matter, says.

If the judge doesn’t like it (their nullification) he can in many cases overrule the verdict and supply his own.


19 posted on 05/01/2013 2:57:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

AFAIK, the judge deciding a verdict can only work this way:

If the jury finds the accused guilty, the Judge can override that and declare them not guilty.

But if a jury finds them not guilty, set, match, game over. That’s the whole point of the jury, so that it’s not some big wig high paid snob deciding cases.


20 posted on 05/01/2013 3:02:21 AM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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