Jury Nullification

[GoodGame]

I know they have a conscience. It was more intimidation and go alongism. It was really absurd. The prosecutor started with robbing a bank-we all agree this is a crime right. She then went lower and lower and I raised my hand when she got to finding $1 on the street and not turning it in. Would you follow the judge and convict if he told you this is considered a crime? I believe no one in the room would actually believed this a crime but I was the only one who spoke up.

That is a humorous litmus test. Well your integrity spared you then.

 

[BvBPL]

I'm pretty sure that failure to turn in lost or abandoned property is a civil violation, not a crime. At least in most jurisdictions.

 

[Leoreth]

Personally, I believe in it. Its just one more check on the government, and I agree with that. I also think the judge should be required to inform the jury that they are allowed to use it.

However, in death penalty cases, (I'm not saying this means there should be a death penalty, although I personally believe in it) anyone who is so anti-death penalty that they would actually set a murderer they believe is guilty free in order to make a statement against capital punishment should not be allowed on the jury of a capital case.

Yeah, the government should be checked in all circumstances, except when it considers to kill someone. It's your typical opinion based on high flying systemic considerations again, but as soon as it gets close to the conservative moralism that is at the actual core of your world view, certainly exceptions have to be made for no discernible reason.

Anyway, the fact that this question even exists shows that juries are inherently flawed and introduce more problems than they're worth into the legal system.