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We recently brought you news that candidate for Sheriff of Greene County, Illinois, Luke Lamb, has been charged with unlawful communication with a juror for sharing a link to the FIJA website and making comments about jury nullification on Facebook to someone who apparently requested the information.

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While prosecutors and judges typically frown on such verdicts and prefer to keep this right secret from jurors so they can not exercise it, there is nothing illegal about jury nullification and jurors can not be punished for their verdicts.

Since the Denver DA issued a press release on the arrest last week of Mark Ianicelli for handing out jury nullification flyers, I gave the contact person listed therein a call this morning to see about getting more information on the case.

Yesterday, a jury unanimously stood in defense of juror educators» right to share general education information about jury nullification and the Fully Informed Jury Association on Facebook, in delivering a Not Guilty verdict in the case of Luke Ljury unanimously stood in defense of juror educators» right to share general education information about jury nullification and the Fully Informed Jury Association on Facebook, in delivering a Not Guilty verdict in the case of Luke Ljury nullification and the Fully Informed Jury Association on Facebook, in delivering a Not Guilty verdict in the case of Luke LJury Association on Facebook, in delivering a Not Guilty verdict in the case of Luke Lamb.

If after learning about jury nullification you think it's a good idea: answer «yes» and you'll be rejected, but answer «no» with the intent to get on the jury to nullify and you've just committed perjury — technically a federal crime — which makes the optimal strategy once on a jury to zip it.

FIJA executive director Kirsten Tynan will speak about the juror's traditional, legal authority to conscientiously acquit through jury nullification and about the impact of various changes to the jury system on its role in protecting individual rights.

But whatever one's view happens to be on that subject, I would have thought that the idea of talking about (and that includes advocating) jury nullification would be a fairly simple matter of free speech.