Boy, this, “Jury Nullification,” thing sure sounds like it would give everyday Americans a dangerous amount of power of our judicial system! I hope the media writes a lot more articles about it so that more people are aware of this terrible, terrible thing that they should never, ever do.
No! You mustn’t! It’s your duty as a juror to uphold the law! Even if you don’t agree with it an there are no enforceable penalties for voting with your conscience instead of the law!
Its a process during jury selection, where each side gets a number of “freebies” where they can eliminate a potential juror for no reason at all. There are also legitimate reasons to bump one, as determined by questioning, but it has to be kinda proven… And it’s usually an easy sell to call for “bias” as the reason.
I was on one about 7 years ago with a guy who didn’t believe in prison. He was never going to vote guilty. Where I was you only needed 10 out of 12, which is very rare. And since then they changed to needing 12 out of 12, so quiet jury notification has already started…
Boy, this, “Jury Nullification,” thing sure sounds like it would give everyday Americans a dangerous amount of power of our judicial system! I hope the media writes a lot more articles about it so that more people are aware of this terrible, terrible thing that they should never, ever do.
I know if I ever got on the jury I would go for innocent.
No! You mustn’t! It’s your duty as a juror to uphold the law! Even if you don’t agree with it an there are no enforceable penalties for voting with your conscience instead of the law!
Which is very likely why you would never get on jury for a case like this.
Just saying, that is how it works in the real world
How would they keep me off? I mean other than the fact I am not American of course. But someone that was?
Voir dire.
Its a process during jury selection, where each side gets a number of “freebies” where they can eliminate a potential juror for no reason at all. There are also legitimate reasons to bump one, as determined by questioning, but it has to be kinda proven… And it’s usually an easy sell to call for “bias” as the reason.
This is why we need to ensure everyone knows about jury nullifcation so it can no longer be a reason for keeping someone off a jury.
That’s OK, you’re still using up the prosecutor’s ammo during jury selection.
I was on one about 7 years ago with a guy who didn’t believe in prison. He was never going to vote guilty. Where I was you only needed 10 out of 12, which is very rare. And since then they changed to needing 12 out of 12, so quiet jury notification has already started…