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minus-squareTango@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoGiven that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.
minus-squarecavitationfetishist2@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoNoi meant for the thing you said If the jury don’t know their options, then what’s the point of them? What do you think the purpose is of keeping something like that a part of the system?
minus-squareTango@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThe whole point of a jury system is that jurors aren’t morons.
minus-squarecavitationfetishist2@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoSo they’re supposed to know but its illegal to tell them?
Given that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.
Noi meant for the thing you said
If the jury don’t know their options, then what’s the point of them?
What do you think the purpose is of keeping something like that a part of the system?
The whole point of a jury system is that jurors aren’t morons.
So they’re supposed to know but its illegal to tell them?