Sentences with phrase «ignore as jurors»

Whether 12 ordinary citizens can ignore as jurors what they know as human beings is another question.

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This tendency, known as hindsight bias, is very difficult to avoid; several studies have shown that potential jurors are unable to focus solely on the person's conduct and ignore the irrelevant information.

That does not make it an obligation to ignore the law in cases where the outcome offends the jurors, merely a possibility which has to be acceptable as part of the structure of the system, really a structural defect.

Given the possibility of jurors who might ignore the law as written, it's not surprising when picking jurors for a trial, lawyers — whose existence is dependent on an orderly society — will ask about nullification, usually in the slightly roundabout way: