Contumacious
Radical Freedom
"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me ******."[
Muhammad Ali
Reason the Founding Fathers believed that Americans should be tried by a JURY OF HIS/HER PEERS. Prior to the 1890's Jurors KNEW that they had the authority to NULLIFY THE LAW
Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" despite its belief that the defendant is guilty of the violation charged. The jury in effect nullifies a law that it believes is either immoral or wrongly applied to the defendant whose fate they are charged with deciding.
Courts nowadays routinely LIE to the Jurors by cautioning them they must accept the "judges" version of the law. The defendants' rights to due process is sacrificed to the Court's and government expediency.
Muhammad Ali
Reason the Founding Fathers believed that Americans should be tried by a JURY OF HIS/HER PEERS. Prior to the 1890's Jurors KNEW that they had the authority to NULLIFY THE LAW
Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" despite its belief that the defendant is guilty of the violation charged. The jury in effect nullifies a law that it believes is either immoral or wrongly applied to the defendant whose fate they are charged with deciding.
Courts nowadays routinely LIE to the Jurors by cautioning them they must accept the "judges" version of the law. The defendants' rights to due process is sacrificed to the Court's and government expediency.
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