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PB: I learned jury nullification from the jurors of the District of Columbia.

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We have more news this morning that FIJA's educational outreach efforts are paying off through the hard work of activists nationwide, this time from San Diego, California: Filner Urges «Jury Nullification» In Medical Pot Dispensary Case San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical -LSB-...]

We also have a collection of Quotes on Jury Authority and Jury Nullification that you may wish to draw from for material to use in your letter.

Funny that we take different lessons from court support Apparently, several activist were passing out Jury Nullification pamphlets to potential jurors early in the morning.

Shut up about jury nullification during voir dire and deliberations or you could be excluded or removed from the jury, leaving the defendant with no fully informed juror who will acquit.

This incident occurred at the temporary south entrance of the courthouse, where Occupy Denver activists have been distributing jury nullification fliers on weekday mornings, 7:30 - 9:00 am, without incident since moving from the main doors.

Jury nullification has been used throughout history to «nullify» unpopular and unjust laws, from laws against free speech to the Fugitive Slave Acts to Prohibition.

We have word from Alaska State Contact Frank Turney that a hearing is scheduled for Alaska's jury nullification bill as follows: HB 315 Monday, 14 April 2014 1:00 pm Alaska time State Capitol, Room 120 Call in number: 1-800-468-2186 Those who can't call in may e-mail the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: [email protected] This -LSB-...]

We have word from Alaska State Contact Frank Turney that a hearing is scheduled for Alaska's jury nullification bill as follows:

While courts do not acknowledge or encourage jury nullification, judges take «no steps... to prevent jurors from nullifying, jurors are not subject to legal sanction for nullifying, and verdicts that are the result of nullification are not subject to review» (Hreno, at para. 2)

«This Court has referred to the jury's power to nullify as the citizen's ultimate protection against oppressive laws and the oppressive enforcement of the law» and it has characterized the jury nullification power as a safety valve for exceptional cases... [H] owever,... recognizing this reality that a jury may nullify is a far cry from suggesting that counsel may encourage a jury to ignore a law they do not support or to tell a jury that it has a right to do so...

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.

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.

After reading the answers from this question, What is jury nullification?

In October 2014, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in State v. Paul that the 2012 law was not a «jury nullification law» and «construed RSA 519:23 - a as merely codifying existing law, rather than conferring on the jury a right to judge or nullify the law...» Trial judges were permitted to use a «Wentworth instruction» derived from State v. Wentworth, 118 N.H. 833 (1978)

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.

Speaking to a packed auditorium at the New York University School of Law on Monday afternoon, Justice Sotomayor said juries are sophisticated organisms that could benefit from being aware of the option of nullification.

If so, this could be just a thuggish attempt to intimidate people from exercising their right to talk about jury nullification.

Adam Kokesh, who previously committed himself to pursue a jury nullification strategy against gun and drug charges, has reportedly taken a plea deal and been released from incarceration pending sentencing.

Simply put, jury nullification refers to the phenomenon of jurors flatly refusing to apply a law in circumstances where society's view of criminality differs from that of our Criminal Code.

Even if you think you already know all there is to know about juries and jury nullification, there is probably still something you can learn from this talk!

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This broader sense of jury nullification is distinguished from cases where the jury sincerely tried to reach a correct verdict based upon the jury instructions but screwed up in their interpretation of the jury instructions and / or their understanding of what happened factually.

Jury nullification in a narrow sense is never thrown out by a judge or on appeal, because a judge does not have the power to do so and there is no appeal from a «not guilty» verdict.

Jury nullification in the broader sense can cause cases to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal for reasons # 4 or # 5, but most of the time, jury nullification will not cause a verdict to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal (even if statements from jurors after the trial make it clear that jury nullification in the broader sense actually took place), if a jury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdJury nullification in the broader sense can cause cases to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal for reasons # 4 or # 5, but most of the time, jury nullification will not cause a verdict to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal (even if statements from jurors after the trial make it clear that jury nullification in the broader sense actually took place), if a jury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdjury nullification will not cause a verdict to be thrown out by a judge or on appeal (even if statements from jurors after the trial make it clear that jury nullification in the broader sense actually took place), if a jury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdjury nullification in the broader sense actually took place), if a jury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdjury that weighed the evidence and evaluated the credibility of the witnesses differently than the actual jury did could have reached the same verdjury did could have reached the same verdict.

Jury nullification in the broader (and less common) sense of the phrase used in this question, refers to cases where the jury actually ignored the law as applied to what the jury believed actually happened from a factual perspective in light of their actual knowledge and not just what was presented at trJury nullification in the broader (and less common) sense of the phrase used in this question, refers to cases where the jury actually ignored the law as applied to what the jury believed actually happened from a factual perspective in light of their actual knowledge and not just what was presented at trjury actually ignored the law as applied to what the jury believed actually happened from a factual perspective in light of their actual knowledge and not just what was presented at trjury believed actually happened from a factual perspective in light of their actual knowledge and not just what was presented at trial.