Sentences with phrase «jury nullification provides»

Jury nullification provides jurors with tremendous power in providing justice.

Not exact matches

KGNU's report provides some insight as to why the District Attorney's office might be particularly fearful at this time of the prospect of having to prove cases before fully informed jurors, aware of their right to conscientiously acquit via jury nullification:

In all criminal proceedings, the court shall permit the defendant to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts by providing a specific nullification instruction to the jury.

Both measures attempted to circumvent that ruling by amending the statute to more explicitly provide for jury nullification instructions.

HB 1333 Provides judges must give precisely worded jury nullification instructions that include the jury's power to «veto bad laws».

HB 1270 AS AMENDED: Provides judges must give precisely worded jury nullification instruction: «If you have a reasonable doubt as to whether the state has proved any one or more of the elements of the crime charged, you must find the defendant not guilty.

Nevertheless, jury nullification also provides an opportunity for you, as citizens of this state, to inform your government that the laws the defendant is charged with violating exceeds what you consider appropriate and acceptable in our society and should be either repealed or revised.