Posted by Mark Jones on 11/05/06 21:15

PTravel wrote:
> Jury nullification is not legal, and any lawyer who tries to argue it
> will find himself sanctioned pretty quickly. The whole point of
> having juries is to have the determination whether certain conduct
> occured determined by members of the community in which it was
> alleged to occur. Juries make factual determinations, and never
> legal ones.
A juror can vote however they want to and can't be coerced
into voting any specific way.

What are you basing your belief on this being illegal?

Actually, the reason to have a jury is so that it is the person's
"peers" who are making the final judgement and not the
government.

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