Jury Nullification

I wonder how many end up in contempt for talking about it?

I'm very confused on how it's possible to arrest or charge someone for talking about a lawful option...Not saying it doesn't happen, mind you, just wondering how it is possible to justify it, i guess this is a 'my brain just exploded' situation.

Yeah, see, we don't live in a free country anymore. We only have the illusion of freedom. USA is now a fascist oligarchy pretending to be otherwise. But there's rampant corruption. A week doesn't go by when I don't hear at least one case of police brutality. A woman recently got arrested for trying to escape a gang rape, then the cops locked her to this torture chair and tortured and scalped her. There's video proof and everything.

Then there's the woman who got raped by a cop, and that same cop arrested her and now she's in jail for "resisting arrest" or some other bullshit. She's never done anything wrong in her life, and now she's in jail for imaginary reasons and her rapist hasn't been punished at all, nor has there even been an inquiry. Hell for all I know they may have promoted him; nothing would surprise me anymore.

It's to the point now where even seemingly good Democrats are working with the rich oligarchy, and even President Obama is complicit in bombing brown children for oil to fuel the capitalist hegemony's war machine. And nobody cares about that, or not enough people anyway, for the same reason that nobody cares that the NSA is spying on us all: gotta have the latest fucking gadget!

Well we wanted to know who would be right, Orwell or Huxley, and it looks like we're getting a hybrid of both.

Interesting. We'll remember this.

This could come in handy if you're a male supremacist and you're on the Elliot Rodger jury. This was used in the South in the 1950s and 1960s to protect whites who killed civil rights workers.

It's a double-edged sword. Jury nullification can produce actual injustice.

Judges, and lawyers are sworn to uphold the law, and this is why they do not instruct jurors to break the law. And when people conspire to break the law, this is not the same as freedom of speech, and they can be arrested for it.

If you don't like a law, I recommend more above-board ways to try to change it, one that involves all the citizenry.

The law says that we can execute a convicted criminal, even if we knew, factually, that the person was innocent.

The law is not justice, and should not be used in opposition to justice.

In times in which the state refuses to protect justice, the citizenry must. Jury nullification is not the best choice, and it's certainly not an unfettered good, but it's a necessary tool.

From what I've heard, jury nullification isn't a legal concept per se, but a consequence of a jury system and the Fifth Amendment's protection against double jeopardy. The jury can't be forced to reach a guilty verdict, and an acquitted defendant can't be retried.

I've talked to a few lawyers who didn't believe it was a deliberate and intended concept - which doesn't invalidate it. The state uses the powers granted it by technicalities all the time.