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Generally speaking you can't just admit to jury nullification without potentially undoing the nullifcation. All you can really do is say "not guilty". If you wa
by tarxvf 3y ago
Generally speaking you can't just admit to jury nullification without potentially undoing the nullifcation.
All you can really do is say "not guilty". If you want to find jury nullification you have to find cases where the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of conviction but the jury didn't convict anyway.
And that can be hard to say, since outside of the court you often don't know exactly what the jury saw and the variation in juries can be pretty astounding.
- shiroiushi 3y agoSo if jurors admit that they changed their verdict because they disagreed with the law, does that cause a mistrial?
- j-bos 3y agoianal but I believe so, it's the jury's duty under the law to decide based on the law and the facts presented at trial, anything else is a violation of that duty. Jury nullification works because there's no way to prove the why for a juror's decision. Arguably jury nullification is a feature of the right to trial by a jury of peers.