[TChris]

Jury nullification is inherent in jury trial.

Really?

You mean jury trials where the jurors are instructed to apply the law to the facts presented by the court? THOSE jury trials?

If the jury is authorized to operate outside the law then the jury has BECOME the law themselves! Why have elected representatives, debate, legislation, veto power, or, for that matter, a Constitution at all? Legislation by jury is so much more efficient!

If your reasoning is correct, then the supreme authority of the United States of America rests with either 12 jurors, or a single juror in many cases. As long as the juror(s) really, really believe they are right and the law is wrong, then screw the law.

Remember, there are liberal jurors sitting in judgment against conservative defendents all the time. Think LONG and HARD about that, in the context of gun posession, concealed carry and self-defense cases, for example.

As I said before, such a belief is openly hostile to the fundamentals spelled out in the Constitution and would be a pernicious force against justice in the USA if allowed to spread.

[LearsFool]

You mean jury trials where the jurors are instructed to apply the law to the facts presented by the court? THOSE jury trials?

I mean ESPECIALLY those jury trials.

If your reasoning is correct, then the supreme authority of the United States of America rests with either 12 jurors, or a single juror in many cases. As long as the juror(s) really, really believe they are right and the law is wrong, then screw the law.

In a nutshell!

Or isn't ours a self-governing nation any more? Perhaps we've abdicated that responsibilty? Perhaps we have for too long lazily delegated that duty further and further up the chain of power that we can no longer make decisions for ourselves about what sort of communities we'd like to have?

If so, let us hang our heads in shame, for we're unworthy of the inheritance bequeathed to us in blood by our nation's founders!

Remember, there are liberal jurors sitting in judgment against conservative defendents all the time. Think LONG and HARD about that, in the context of gun posession, concealed carry and self-defense cases, for example.

If you're suggesting that the consequences of my principles might convince me to abandon my principles, you've misjudged me, my FRiend.