[House Atreides]

“This is the kind of case where jury nullification can come in handy.”
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Most definitely! The prosecutors will likely try to exclude from the jury as many married men who have daughters as they can.

[cripplecreek]

We need jury duty education as a requirement of voting and we need the supreme court to reverse the 1895 ruling that says that jurors need not be informed of their rights.

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

JOHN ADAMS (1771): It's not only ....(the juror's) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge's instruction...."if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has...."unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge."