Freedom1Man
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Finally someone is publishing this. This is something I have told people about for years and then they look at me funny and don't realize that this could make jury duty more 'fun'.
So, would you exercise your right to jury nullification or would you go and find someone guilty over a bad law or bad charges?
The recent mistrial in the case of U.S. Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham shows the lack of education of the Bell County jurors. The mistrial occurred because only one juror of the six understood his rights and responsibilities as a juror. Initially, according to jury member L.J. Cotterill, “we all agreed that the charge itself and the case itself was garbage. This entire matter should have been resolved by two grown men acting like grown men apologizing for their part in a bad situation and buying each other a beer and then going to a range together.” The problem was that the jury didn’t know their rights and power to find “not guilty” if justice demanded it. Let alone their right to ignore a judge’s instructions . . .
The ability to ignore a judge’s instructions is one of the most important parts of jury duty. It derives directly form English common law and the landmark case of Peter Zenger in 1734. If a jury is bound to follow the judge’s instructions, they become, in effect, nothing more than government employees rather than free people with a duty to hold the government as well as citizens accountable.
Finally someone is publishing this. This is something I have told people about for years and then they look at me funny and don't realize that this could make jury duty more 'fun'.
So, would you exercise your right to jury nullification or would you go and find someone guilty over a bad law or bad charges?