I recall this [edit: potentially] happening a few years back when a jury in Bristol - a notoriously progressive city - gave a not guilty verdict to four people

I recall this [edit: potentially] happening a few years back when a jury in Bristol - a notoriously progressive city - gave a not guilty verdict to four people that had helped topple a statue of a long dead slave trader: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colston_Four_trial https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colston_Four_trial The right wing of the country was obviously in uproar and demanding changes to the system or that some exception be made. Except, interestingly, for the poshest and possibly most right wing MP of all, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Iirc he said that even though he disagreed with the verdict, jury nullification is there for a good reason and the jury was perfectly within protocol to do what they did. He's a nasty piece of work but every now and then comes across as surprisingly principled.