2.6: What is "Jury Nullification"?
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This article is from the Lawful Arrest/Search/Seizure FAQ, by Ahimsa Dhamapada ahimsa@mu.clarityconnect.net with numerous contributions by others.
2.6: What is "Jury Nullification"?
Please seek out the Fully Informed Jury Association!
(http://www.fija.org). Also, Whitten's _Citizen Rule Book_
has good info on your rights and responsibilites as a juror.
When you sit on a Jury, you have more power than as
almost under any other capacity as a citizen, 1000 times
more power than when you vote. You have more power than the
judge, than the legislators, than the police. You have a
right and a duty to judge the facts according to the law,
AND TO JUDGE THE LAW ITSELF!
Jury Nullification is when a jury nullifies bad law.
A jury can say "not guilty" for ANY reason, especially
if the jury thinks the person violated a law, but finds
that the law was a bad one.
Research what happened to Edward Bushnell, who sat on the
jury of William Penn, accused of practicing an illegal
religion.
Also research how Jury Nullification helped eliminate
prohibition. (Well, of course I mean *alcohol prohibition*.
we still have prohibition today, just a different kind!)
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