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Judge Rules That Advocating Jury Nullification Is Not a Crime
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<blockquote data-quote="soonerwings" data-source="post: 1775742" data-attributes="member: 8035"><p>I get what you guys are saying, I really do. To be fair, I mostly agree in that I love the idea of citizens having the final say. It still makes me nervous though. I'll never forget the commercial flight I was on from Dallas to Atlanta (back when local broadcast stations were beginning the process of switching over to digital HDTV signals) where I heard another persons exclaim something to the effect of "the government can't expect me to pay for a converter box, <em>it's against the Constitution!!</em> Now I understand that a jury isn't going to change a law, they're only going to refuse to convict someone accused of violating it in a single instance. In essence, the charges are nullified rather than the law itself. That being said, it still gives me pause to picture 12 people who think that watching television is a constitutionally protected right ending up on a jury together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soonerwings, post: 1775742, member: 8035"] I get what you guys are saying, I really do. To be fair, I mostly agree in that I love the idea of citizens having the final say. It still makes me nervous though. I'll never forget the commercial flight I was on from Dallas to Atlanta (back when local broadcast stations were beginning the process of switching over to digital HDTV signals) where I heard another persons exclaim something to the effect of "the government can't expect me to pay for a converter box, [I]it's against the Constitution!![/I] Now I understand that a jury isn't going to change a law, they're only going to refuse to convict someone accused of violating it in a single instance. In essence, the charges are nullified rather than the law itself. That being said, it still gives me pause to picture 12 people who think that watching television is a constitutionally protected right ending up on a jury together. [/QUOTE]
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