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It’s the entire reason for having a jury of your peers in the first place. We got tired of our countrymen being convicted of breaking another nation’s dumb laws
by kstrauser 2y ago
It’s the entire reason for having a jury of your peers in the first place. We got tired of our countrymen being convicted of breaking another nation’s dumb laws, so we put a mechanism in place assuring that some has to be guilty in the eyes of their neighbors, not some distant government. Jury nullification is just about the most American thing I can imagine. Saying “I don’t care if he did it, it’s a dumb law and I’m not convicting him for it” is our birthright.
- amenhotep 2y agoThis post seems to evince a belief that America invented juries? You didn't.
- amenhotep 2y agoIn fact, you're not very good at them! Voir dire is a ridiculous process that doesn't exist in England and Wales.
- kstrauser 2y agoI have no idea how you got that from what I wrote. I never claimed, or thought, that America invented juries. Neither did we invent congresses or constitutions, but we also enacted them because we recognized them as good and useful ideas.
- bdangubic 2y agoamen
- giraffe_lady 2y ago[dead]