Assertion: jury | /r/HasAspect | the right
Facets:
value: to nullification
type: PURPOSE
value: beyond all dispute
type: OTHER
value: in all criminal cases
type: OTHER
value: to decide
type: PURPOSE
value: for any reason
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Cir. 1969), Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal unanimously ruled: "If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust, or exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the right to acquit, and the courts must abide that decision.
text: McNally[full citation needed] sets out that a jury has the right to reach a not guilty verdict even in direct contradiction of the evidence.
text: In the United States, it is understood that juries usually weigh the evidence and testimony to determine questions of fact, while judges usually rule on questions of law, although the dissenting justices in the Supreme Court case Sparf et al. v. U.S. 156 U.S. 51 (1895), generally considered the pivotal case concerning the rights and powers of the jury, declared: "It is our deep and settled conviction, confirmed by a re-examination of the authorities that the jury, upon the general issue of guilty or not guilty in a criminal case, have the right, as well as the power, to decide, according to their own judgment and consciences, all questions, whether of law or of fact, involved in that issue.
text: [Juries] have the right beyond all dispute to determine both the law and the facts, and where they do not doubt of the law, they ought to do so.
text: The Indiana Constitution allows nullification, but does not require informing the jury of this right: "In all criminal cases whatever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts".
text: Some advocacy groups and websites argue that private parties in cases where the government is the opponent have the right to have juries be instructed that they have the right and duty to render a verdict contrary to legal positions they believe to be unjust or unconstitutional.
text: Juries clearly have the power to nullify; whether they also have the right to nullify is another question.
text: But do they have the right to nullify
text: Do juries have the right to nullification, and is there any recourse for refusing to convict a defendant?