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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to jury nullification. The first rule of jury nullification is: you do not talk about jury nullification. The second rule of jury nullification is: you DO NOT talk about jury nullification. Because if the judge catches wind of it, they’ll swap you out with an alternate juror.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Just to add, despite literally over a two hundrdd years of legal precedence confirming the legality of jury nullification, up to and including the supreme court, judges can still say otherwise.

Don't say it, and know that the judges instructions can be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
Jury jury = new Jury()
if (jury) {
    jury = null
}
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So hot right now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Good to know about random stuff like this. Never know when it could be useful.