Sentences with phrase «jury nullification before»

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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:

At risk of 13 years in prison plus an addition $ 13,000 in fines, activist Jeff Olson turned down a plea deal and took his case before a jury where today he was acquitted on all 13 misdemeanor charges in what appears to be another jury nullification.

Alaska's jury nullification bill had a hearing before the House Judiciary committee yesterday.

On January 17th NJWeedman must appear one more time before Judge Delehey the Burlington County Court, from there he plans on touring the country to promote jury nullification.

As far as how would juror's know about jury nullification, they could have read about the process before being selected for jury duty.