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I really hope Jury nullification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification becomes a bigger thing in this

• throwaway420 14y ago
  I hope so too, but Julian Heicklen and others have already been charged with "jury tampering" and other such made up crimes simply for trying to inform others about jury nullification. Juries are not supposed to be rubber-stamps for the government and I'd urge anybody who is going to serve on a jury to learn about their rights and responsibilities before going. If you think a non-violent person being charged in a marijuana possession case or other non-crime doesn't merit locking up, throw a wrench into the corrupt system and vote not guilty.
• mindslight 14y ago
  Do you honestly think there was anyone on the jury that understood what he did, and wasn't just taking the persecutor's modern-witch hysteria as fact? That "jury of your peers" thing fell by the wayside a long time ago.
• fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
  You'll only get that if people educate themselves. It was never mentioned to me in school that I can remember.