Sentences with phrase «said jury nullification»

In the statement, Filner said jury nullification allows the people's «will to prevail.»

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Or may be I can learn a lot of laws and hence I can say I know jury nullification.

She said several changes to the bill would ensure that jury nullification is clearly protected.

«Even without juries being informed of jury nullification, cases have been won here in New Jersey with jurors, after watching defendant testimony, deciding for either moral or personal reasons not to convict, concluding that the charges were unjust,» Peditto said.

In his 5 March letter regarding the Fully Informed Jury Act, Travis McAdams had little to say about jury nullificatJury Act, Travis McAdams had little to say about jury nullificatjury nullification.

So much so that, six months ago, if you had said the words «jury nullification» to me, my first response would have been that the power of juries in this country is increasingly being nullified by settlements, plea bargaining, and anything done to ensure that a case isn't presented to a dozen «wild card» members of the citizenry.

● What have legal professionals said in support of jury nullification?

● The jury instructions say or the judge said that jury nullification is invalid.

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.

Professor Paul Butler does a great job discussing the power of jurors conscientiously to say Not Guilty, even if the law was technically broken, in this NPR interview spurred by the billboards placed in Washington, D.C. Jury Nullification: Acquitting Based on Principle In response to former prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer's argument against jury nullification, Butler says: -LSB-Jury Nullification: Acquitting Based on Principle In response to former prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer's argument against jury nullification, Butler saNullification: Acquitting Based on Principle In response to former prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer's argument against jury nullification, Butler says: -LSB-jury nullification, Butler sanullification, Butler says: -LSB-...]

«Any time Mike had an opportunity to raise any issues, jury nullification was always among them,» says FIJA Board of Advisors member and state contact Roger Roots.

A lot of things are said about jury nullification and much of it is inaccurate.

That's pretty much the definition of jury nullification, and the Supreme Court has said on multiple occasions that it's a good enough reason to keep someone off a jury.