What the jury nullification proponents never seem to realize is that it is a two-edged sword.
The OJ jurors practiced it, as did the jury in To Kill a Mockingbird. If the evidence is as is presently out there, the Zimmerman jury might have to do so in order to convict.
Conviction of an obviously innocent man because you dislike his politics or skin color is just as much jury nullification as is acquittal of a guilty one because you approve of his politics.
Ahh,...OK...
If the evidence is as is presently out there, the Zimmerman jury might have to do so in order to convict.
Let's get our terminology straight, this would be a railroad, or lynching.
Such an action would be the nullification of justice, the society, and the moral authority of government. It would be the affirmation of mob rule, absolute barbarism and human sacrifice.
Conviction of an obviously innocent man because you dislike his politics or skin color is just as much jury nullification as is acquittal of a guilty one because you approve of his politics.
No, this is a conflation that ASSUMES that law given by the mob is good or just. It is not, as my tagline has asserted for a while, now.