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To: Texas Fossil

Navarro quoted from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the topic of jury nullification:

Jury nullification occurs when a jury acquits a defendant, even though the government proved guilt beyond a reasonable doubt… Juries do not have a right to nullify, and courts have no corresponding duty to ensure that juries are able to exercise this power, such as by giving jury instructions on the power to nullify…

On the contrary, “courts have the duty to forestall or prevent [nullification], whether by firm instruction or admonition or… dismissal of an offending juror,” because “it is the duty of juries in criminal cases to take the law from the court, and apply that law to the facts as they find them to be from the evidence.” Juries are just rubber-stamps.

Yes, We the People are just cattle to be manipulated into making whatever case against ourselves the PTB want us to. To keep us within the illusion that we are a goverment OF, By and For the People.


22 posted on 07/25/2017 8:16:25 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Yes, that is how our masters (betters) look at us.


24 posted on 07/25/2017 8:42:19 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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