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To: Blood of Tyrants

I didn’t know that jury nullification had been adjudicated.

Can you give some more details?


59 posted on 12/03/2015 6:31:24 PM PST by webstersII
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To: webstersII

Jurors used to be instructed in jury nullification. Jurors were instructed that they could judge the law as well as the facts. That stopped at some point and a someone challenged a conviction where the jury was not instructed that they could judge the law. It eventually made it to the SC and the challenge was defeated. But it IS still legal to judge the law and determine if the law is unjust.

Judges and prosecutors and the police hate it.


60 posted on 12/03/2015 6:42:36 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: webstersII

P.S. And giving out literature on it is protected by the 1st Amendment.


61 posted on 12/03/2015 6:45:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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