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"She still feels sick about the conviction she was compelled to hand out, to a man who was initially stopped by police for being in a city park after nightfall.
by redler 9y ago
"She still feels sick about the conviction she was compelled to hand out, to a man who was initially stopped by police for being in a city park after nightfall. Although the law was, in her view, deeply flawed, she felt she had no choice but to vote with the majority. Glaser herself carries a Swiss Army knife on her keychain.
“It just seemed like a trumped-up charge,” she says. “And it certainly doesn’t seem like it’s enforced equally across the board.”
This reads like a textbook example discussing the case for jury nullification.
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoOr you know, just hold out and force a mistrial. This really speaks to the colossal susceptibility of jurors to blind groupthink.
- mcheshier 9y agoCame to post this exact same thing. Rational potential jurors out there, don't dodge that summons! You're the last safeguard against tyranny.
- microcolonel 9y agoI hear that in New Hampshire, people regularly inform jurors of this feature of the jury trial; but in some places it is illegal to do so. Most places try to rule it out as part of jury selection (which is understandable).