If they decide that this stuff is OK, then doesn’t that open the door to jury nullification? If I’m on the jury, I can decide whatever I want. I don’t like the particular law — the guy may have broken it, but in my opinion it’s a stupid law, so I say he’s innocent. Or, I guess, the guy may be quite innocent, but I don’t like the way he looks, so I say he’s guilty.
Is that the direction they want to go? You just decide this stuff as you please and don’t need to follow standards and rules?
Oh, there will be rules and standards.
But we won’t get a say in any of them.
Look at the WuFlu lockdowns as a preview of coming attractions..
Jurymen are always free to vote anyway they please... We just need the necessary stones to do so.. The jury (the people) have a right to nullify bad laws... I'm I wrong.??
“the guy may have broken it, but in my opinion it’s a stupid law, so I say he’s innocent.”
Which is your perfect unassailable right as a juror.
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” If I’m on the jury, I can decide whatever I want. “
Actually, that is EXACTLY the purpose of the juror. Juries are part of the checks and balances of power. They are NOT supposed to rubber stamp the king’s laws.
We really have failed to teach civics in High School.