Huh, I guess, according to you, Nicole Simpson's family have been "liberated" by the use of jury nullification.
Any power can be used for good or ill. It is just that our philosophy, part of our Judeo-Christian heritage, is that it it better that 100 guilty people go free than that 1 innocent person shall be punished. I agree with that philosophy, do you? I am outraged that any innocent person goes to jail and find that the criminal justice system is horribly corrupt. As evidence, I offer the 12 death row inmates freed with absolute proof of their innocence by a bunch of law students on a class project.
We need an intelligent bunch of jurors, and an end to the system of picking jurors that selects the intelligent ones out.
Does anyone know of a registered Libertarian that has gotten on a criminal jury in the last 10 years?
The O.J. Simpson jury decided that Marcia Clark et al. failed to make a solid case. I'd say that the credit/blame for O.J.'s acquittal goes more to the inept prosecution and the ineffective judge than to the jury.
If the state fails to make a solid case, it is right and proper for a jury to acquit. To be sure, the prosecution wasn't helped by Ito's allowing the defense to turn the court into a circus, but again that's not the jury's fault.