Jury Nullfication is the People's Presidential Pardon
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Just don't mention jury nullification in front of a judge or prosecutor. They hate that.
Definitely mention it, just not at your own trial or after you've been selected for jury duty
Never mention it. They will often ask questions about how you think a juror should or can act. If you answer them in a way that shows you might know about nullification, you are out. If you then later admit you know about it, they will point to those questions and know you lied about them. Safest answer is to just never, ever use the term, ideally you should go through the motions in deliberation of putting the the rules together, like you are just realizing it's a possibility then and there.
Yeah, I'm saying that we should mention it as non jurors. Its our responsibility to tell them. Here on Lemmy and every way we can. Let jurors know that they have the ability to do justice, even if the law is wrong
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He has the right to be judged by a jury of his peers, and it appears as if his peers agree with his actions.
"As this man's peers, you must be the judge of his actions."
"Ok"
"Wait, not like that"
Yup. The article mentions that the prosecutors have a problem, but the U.S. people certainly don't.
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Billionaries and CEOs don't bother to show up to jury duty
And so much for a "jury of our peers" if they are padded with billionaires.
Imagine they show for this though...
If I was the only working class juror, I would try my hardest to get the CEO jurors sequestered with me.
Can we really call ceo's our peers?
Nope. I'd be deliberately wasting their time and money until we're a hung jury. They aren't capable of a good faith discussion.
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Both teams will be given an opportunity to eliminate potential jurors they believe are too sympathetic to the one side or the other.
Good luck with that, you can only weed out a limited number, and there's a fucking lot of us.
Working as intended, jury of his peers not some mindless robots.
careful, lw mods don't like that
It was clarified that talking about Jury Nullification in the context of future crime is a no-no because it's a no-no in the country lw is based. But in the context of already committed crime it's fine.
So "Go ahead and commit the crime and we'll do jury nullification!" Is bad, but "Crime was committed, but we sympathize with the motive/person/whatever so let's do jury nullification !" Is OK
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Sympathy and empathy are definitely a problem in an openly corrupt, heartless justice system that only serves the elite.
Jury nullification
"Jury nullification is a fundamental aspect of the American jury system, allowing jurors to acquit defendants despite overwhelming evidence of guilt if they deem the law unjust or immoral. This concept has its roots in colonial America and has been exercised throughout U.S. history, often in response to unjust laws or societal norms."
For those not on the know.
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I thought they put the terrorist charge on him precisely to avoid requiring a jury as part of all the ~~rights~~ privileges we surrendered post 9/11 in the name of... Pffff... National security.
National security being hilarious considering the CEOs are still walking the streets free, murdering citizens for profit having never not being actively sucked off by legislators that passed the patriot act and similar legislation.
The murderous Shareholders are already inside the house. They own the house. You can barely afford to rent it from them.
I don't think that's why they charged him with terrorism. The reason that some terrorism trials are (were?) done in secret in the past I believe is because most of the evidence that would have been presented would have been classified. I don't think there is any classified evidence related to Luigi's trial.
I think it's more likely that they added the terrorism charge just as an enhancement to potentially add time to his sentence or more opportunities for him to be convicted of something. However, someone posted an insightful comment here a couple of days ago, pointing out that in order to prove terrorism they will have to discuss his motivations at length, which will only make him more sympathetic to most jurors.
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Maybe this is somewhat similar to a woman killing her rapist, after police refuse to investigate? There are probably examples of leniency in such cases.
These clowns have no idea they're so out of touch with everyday Americans
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Good.
I wonder why
When this happens, it means the laws that enable these people are no longer acceptable to the people. That's a dangerous place to be.
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