Learn About Jury Nullification

[Rakhmetov]

If you serve in a jury then you have the right, nay the duty, to nullify any law you consider to be unjust. If you serve in a jury never advertise your jury nullification beliefs to the judge but you can persuade your fellow jurrors to side with the defendant. Know how to put a monkey wrench in the system!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification#Controversy

[Sixiang]

That is very interesting. I never knew that. Thanks for the information. I might need to use this in an argument in my government class...

[mikelepore]

It's not always progressive. There was a time when jury nullification made it difficult to convict the Ku Klux Klan of lynching and bombing. Overwhelming evidence of guilt ... the jury goes to deliberate ... they reach a verdict ... not guilty.

[Rakhmetov]

It's neutral depending on how you use it. :(

[graymouser]

It's neutral depending on how you use it. :(
I've always thought that revolutionaries should sit on juries when called for duty, and vote to acquit anyone charged with crimes regarding drug possession or anyone facing the death penalty. Nullification does have a bad name, although honestly racist murderers were never going to be convicted in the South, in all likelihood the prosecution left ample room for "reasonable doubt" in its cases.

There are really weird racist things (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0805.carey.html) going on with the criminal justice system, although it's mostly black men being conned into believing that there are technicalities that will get them off the hook, when in reality they will send them up for life.