Assuming this is true, this guy's a hero
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Everyone needs to know about jury nullification. If you think the punishment is unfair or have any other issues with convicting someone, you can vote not guilty.
The courts try and keep this knowledge from people. They give jury instructions that you must find someone guilty if they meet the elements of the crime and will prevent defendents from telling jurors about jury nullification. But you can vote your conscience without repercussion regardless of what the judge says.
https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/what-is-jury-nullification.html
Yep. And they will straight up disqualify you from the Jury pool if you know about Jury Nullification-- there is usually a question from the Prosecution/DA specifically designed to screen for jurors who know about it.
This case is one where the guy should have walked.
So wearing a tshirt with Ask Me About Jury Nullification is a great way to get relieved of jury duty?
LOL. I wonder if they would dismiss everyone. Dozens of potential jurors would see it during the administrative BS waiting to be seated for a trial.
This gets me wondering...is there anything they could do if you stood outside (probably a little bit away) a courthouse where jury selection occurs, with a sign saying something along the lines of "Look up jury nullification?"
There was a guy in NYC (Dr. Julian Heicklen) who did this every day for years. He passed away in March.
He was charged with jury tampering in 2010, but the case was thrown out in 2012: the judge said he was within his First Amendment rights as long as he didn’t “target individual jurors”.
Along those lines, some rich philanthropist should take out TV ads on send mass mailers to people explaining it. Hilarity ensues when the entire legal profession goes reee.
I wish I was rich enough to do that.
You could probably rent a billboard on a highway somewhere.
They could almost certainly use that as an excuse to get a new jury, get you on some obstruction charge, or dismiss any verdict they don't like.
The system is built upon the whims of those in charge, no amount of logic will catch them in a trap where they are forced to accept it.
It's more about sending a message, not influencing any specific verdict. At least that's the angle I was going for.
Are there any consequences for lying and saying you don't know about jury nullification?
You're technically under oath when you answer questions, so it'd be perjury.
If they find out. Unless you go blabbing to everyone there's really no way to know. They're not searching your house and internet history.
But the verdict might still stand regardless. They wouldn't overturn the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict even after one of the jurors admitted he was sexually assaulted as a kid and didn't disclose it and he believes that him speaking about it in deliberations helped sway other jurors to find her guilty.
Because it was "unintentional". Of course it was. https://www.foxnews.com/us/ghislaine-maxwell-denied-new-trial-after-juror-misled-court
Leftists have been using jury nullification to destroy our legal system for decades. That’s literally how OJ Simpson got off. The msm didn’t cover the verdict in those terms because widespread knowledge and practice of jury nullification represents nothing less than the total collapse of our nation.
But yeah, everyone should do it at this point.
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But yeah I think the MSM is just stupid. Normally I don't ascribe to ignorance what can be completely explained by malice, but journalists are the least informed among "educated" people out there.