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Jury Nullification - The Evolution of a Doctrine

Jury Nullification

The Political History of Jury Nullification

Jury Nullification - Empowering the jury as the fourth branch of government

A Trial By Jury

"Who can make us? There is something called nullification-right?-where a jury disregards the law and does what it thinks is right?"

In the Hands of the People - The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles and Future in American Democracy

"of courtroom power among the judge, the lawyers, and the jury will serve both justice and ... tangled under the label "jury nullification," they are distinct and have met different fates."

American Jury On Trial - Psychological Perspectives

"a white woman and sentenced to death by an all-white jury. Claiming that jury selection was discriminatory, he appealed the verdict."

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Definition of jury nullification - the right of the jury to judge the validity and morality of the law as well as the facts under which a defendant is being tried.

Constitutions of Maryland, Indiana, Oregon and Georgia currently have provisions guaranteeing the right of jurors to “judge” or “determine” the law in “all criminal cases”.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction... if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong. -- Alexander Hamilton, 1804

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court. --John Adams, 1771

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1789

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they... undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow -- James Madison

• http://www.fija.org - Jurors must know that they have the option and the responsibility to render a verdict based on their conscience and on their sense of justice as well as on the merits of the law.

• Jury Nullification California

Jury links:

• http://www.constitution.org/jury/jury_link.htm

• http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-11-99.html - Arguing for paying of jurors
• http://www.reasontofreedom.com/jury_nullification_saves_america.html - Jury Nullification Saves America

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