Sentences with phrase «including jury nullification»

This excellent article comes from Mark Thornton, who argues for various forms of nullification - including jury nullification - to protect the people of Colorado and Washington states from abuse by a federal government set on pursuing the long - failed war on (some) drugs.

This is part of a series of responses to myths, misconceptions, and misstatements about jury issues, including jury nullification and juror education outreach.

Not exact matches

English common law procedure includes the right to Jury Nullification whenever the Jury correctly finds an Act of a Legislature to be unconstitutional.

These include legislation, prosecutorial charging guidelines, court challenges, jury nullification, the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in the absence of offence - specific charging guidelines, and the exercise of judicial discretion in sentencing.

However, HB 146 was amended by both the House and the Senate, and by the time it was enacted no longer included any explicit reference to jury nullification.

In 2012, the same session in which HB 146 was passed, two other bills, HB 1247 and HB 1397, were also considered that included more explicit provisions for jury nullification instructions.

They talked extensively about how jurors can use jury nullification to push back against human rights abuses, including refusing to be complicit in punishing victimless offenses — offenses which are disproportionately used by government to punish -LSB-...]

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

I'm merely presenting them with the complete picture of all of their options, including the right of jury nullification that they will typically either not be informed about or will be explicitly misinformed about once they get into a courtroom.

Meanwhile, the 2017 New Hampshire jury nullification bill (HB 133), that includes the specific wording / language judges are to use in instructing a jury, was approved in mid-February by the House (discussed here) and remains pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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.