The technical term is, I believe, jury nullification.
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jxshannon2@aol.com> wrote:
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> I've been dis-empaneled several times now for saying
I would not follow the
> judge's advice on the law if it went against my own
conscience. There's some
> legal word for that doctrine, and I believe it's one
of the great secrets of
> jurisprudence--that judges never want juries to toy
with that idea. And,
> yes, I agree it can be a dangerous concept. It was
used in the South for a
> century to free whites who had hurt or killed
blacks.
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> John Shannon
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