If you are ever on jury duty in a United States criminal court, you can always, ALWAYS vote to acquit.
No matter what the law says and what the evidence says, you have the right to keep that person out of prison.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_United_States
Jury nullification is your right
@SapphicLawyer
Yes!
And if you even hint that you know this, you're likely to be excused from jury duty. So there's perhaps no reason to bring it up during the process. :)
Yeah, I don't know. If they say like, would you have any problem deciding on the facts and allowing the court to decide on the law, I could certainly say I would have no problem doing that. I might not actually intend to do that, but I would have no problem doing it if I wanted to. :D No idea if doing that is actually dangerous.
@penny @ceoln @SapphicLawyer but "according to the law" includes jury nullification, so it's technically not a lie to say no
@rolenthedeep @ceoln @SapphicLawyer it’s prosecutable, judges don’t like people trying to be cute like that either
Is it really prosecutable? Judges don't like it, for sure, but jurors are generally pretty immune to prosecution just based on how they voted or whatever afaik. Has anyone been prosecuted for jury nullification or similar?
@ceoln @SapphicLawyer they’ll usually ask you a question like “do you have any beliefs that would not to rule according to the law?” and it’s criminal to lie :/