Sentences with phrase «post jury nullification»

Alabama bill would require judges give and post jury nullification instructions in courthouse or be arrested and impeached; «judges are the chief competition to the jury»

Not exact matches

Although two of these measures have been reviewed in previous posts, below is a collection and summary of the measures addressing jury nullification in the state legislatures this session.

However, rather than attempting to inform juries of their ability to nullify, as the other measures reviewed in this post did, this measure attempted to restrict the nullification power of juries by informing them of a reason for which they may not nullify the law.

HB 246 was discussed in the previous post mentioned above, and would have added an additional provision to RSA 519:23 - a that the refusal by a judge to administer jury nullification instructions be considered maladministration, an impeachable offense.

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Finally, one might consider an executive pardon or jury - nullification to be ex post «permission to break the law.»