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To: Diamond; Tall_Texan
Jurors are supposed to be a citizen bulwark against government tyranny.

Yes! WE get to decide whether the law is right or wrong, Tall Tex, we don't have to vote to uphold a law that we the jury (as the peers of the accused) feel is unfair or unconstitutional. The jury gets to decide the facts and the law, and numerous court opinions have made this very clear.

Of course, the prosecutors and the judges (government employees both) refuse to acknowledge this, because to do so would run the risk that certain "laws" are essentially written out of existence through jury nullification. And since these guys make their money by throwing other folks in jail, it would cut into their business if suddenly jurors got some cajones and started refusing to enforce some bad and unfair laws.

Jury nullification has been going on the black community for years. It's time we white folk started doing it too.

13 posted on 08/05/2002 10:22:59 AM PDT by Henrietta
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15 posted on 08/05/2002 10:27:38 AM PDT by Free the USA
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