Did you know that any jury or juror can nullify any law if he feels is unjust
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
There are cases where the state/goverment has brought a person to trail who and under the law is quilty
but
the jury has aquited the person as they feel the law is unjust
this happened when english law in pre revolutionay america was law
it has also happened in contemporary cases
what this means is
even though the state can make any law it wants a jury can say the law is unjust and not find quilty persons charged under the law
in america the judge will not as a rule tell the jury it has this power
but it does have the power
in this way the people can always nullify any law the state goverment makes law
the people are always supreme- if THEY ONLY KNOW THAT AND THE JUDGE INFORMS THEM OF THIER POWER
A judge in a court room setting is considered the head jurist I believe. I’m sure jurors are instructed within certain guidelines of what court procedure is (possibly accompanied with literature [I’m not sure since I have never served on a jury]). Juries being observed by the judge in certain cases has altered compensations that were initially set before a case begins. If they find fault where the state may be wrong or too harsh concerning the nature of an offense, it could lead to a mistrial and it could change the precedence of a staute.
jury nullification has nothing to do with the state being wrong
it has to do with the jury considering a law of the state to be unjust or wrong
read the article
That’s an odd little article. It both tells you that jury nullification is a possible course of action under the law, and that precedence has turned it into a dirty little secret. It’s as if, if you know that jury nullification is the law, then you cannot use it. But if you are just some schmuck controlled by passion rather than legality, then you can employ it at will, ofcourse not realizing that you are.
I wonder how the legal system would react to a massive nation-wide ad campaign informing the public of this right. I mean, if juror after juror asks court after court about jury nullification, there will come a time when so many jurors have been dismissed that it becomes impractical.
Not any law, and there is such a thing as an appeals process. Most cases are settled on summary judgment, so a jury rarely gets a chance. And in alot of cases what you think might qualify as jury nullification is really just what’s supposed to happen in a trial, you know, like, a review of mitigating circumstances which might excuse or justify the offending action.