Is it true a jury can 'veto' the law?
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Is it true a jury can 'veto' the law?
Iloilo Jones (Executive Director of Fully Informed Jury Association) gives expert video advice on: What is the 'power to nullify'?; Is jury nullification possible in all cases?; If I have questions or concerns about the trial, how do I talk to the judge? and more...
It may come up in a discussion that everybody thinks that this is a bad law for an instance, slavery or prohibition to name a couple, we know now are very silly laws and very bad too. And it may come out just kind of fourth-width, that you all think this was a stupid law, they should never had been on the books, they should not be in forced and we know there were a lot of bad laws still on the book. There laws on spitting on sidewalks, on some place looking put on jail for a week. I don't think any jury could really convict somebody under that law but it's still on the books on some places so you can veto that law, you can nullify that law and simply refuse to convict that person and that is your authority, that is your right, that is your duty, that is your obligation, that is your power as a jury to do that.