Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court?

dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Pretty simple. A jury is 12 rrandom-ish people (ignoring the Voir Dire process where lawyers argue about who deserves to be on the jury).

If you openly are for jury nullification, then the prosecutor will try to throw you out in the Voir Dire proces (its unfair to the prosecutor if you think that you can ignore the Prosecutor’s argument entirely). Then they select someone else to be part of the jury.

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