Comment on YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up.
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 3 days agoYou’d think so, but no. You cannot be punished as a juror for voting your conscience. So long as you don’t say “I intentionally lied during voir dire to sabotage due process” they cannot even ask you why you voted the way you did unless you volunteer for questions afterwards.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’d be surprised at how stupid people can be. Obviously we’re all dancing around one case and I assure the members of that jury will be pestered about it for a long time after
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah, people can be stupid, but they can be less stupid if they know the things they should know. Hence this post.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I think you’d be hard pressed to find any lemmy users who did not already know about Jury Nullification, sadly however most users seem to have a poor understanding of it. As though Juries should just make up the law for cases they hear based on the vibe of the case.