Sentences with phrase «way of jury nullification»

Mark Iannicelli was arrested on 27 July 2015 at the Lindesy - Flanigan Courthouse in Denver, Colorado where he was allegedly handing out flyers informing people of jurors» right to conscientiously acquit by way of jury nullification.

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If jury instructions were delivered in «contract» form, nullification would appear in the 47th paragraph of the small print section, way past when 99 percent of jurors had stopped reading.

Activists in several states are promoting the practice of jury nullification as a way to prevent the miscarriage of justice by the judiciary and the police.

Two other Oregon bills would change the way the courts handle juries in criminal cases, mandating the use of jury nullification instructions.

Second, the rarely discussed spectre of jury nullification has the potential to nudge its way into the Semrau case.

Viewing jury instructions this way I think would mean that it is part of the role of the jury to determine which parts of the jury instructions should be considered fact, and I think it would also mean that jury nullification wouldn't necessarily mean that a jury returns «a verdict of «Not Guilty» despite its belief that the defendant is guilty of the violation charged»; it could just mean that the jury doesn't accept all of the statements in the jury instructions, such as the judge's interpretation of the law, as fact.