Assertion: jury nullification | /r/HasProperty | power
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text: This sort of punitive response to an attempt at jury nullification is highly unusual (according to the show, it has not happened in over 300 years), but it highlights the fact that jury nullification is not exactly permissible, even though it is a power that jurors have.
text: Jury nullification is the power that jurors have to find a defendant not guilty even if they think that he committed the crime," Butler told me.
text: Jury nullification is a powerful way to safeguard those in your community.
text: Jury nullification is a powerful tool that citizens can use to make their views on the law clear, and over time it may have the effect of helping to shift the laws themselves.
text: But even in appeals cases with rulings unfavorable to jury nullification, such as those allowing judges to fail to inform or to outright lie to jurors about jury nullification, courts agree that jury nullification is a power that jurors have, that they cannot be punished for exercising it, and that Not Guilty verdicts cannot be overturned even if arrived at by way of conscientious acquittal.
text: The Supreme Court has this weird set of cases, in which it acknowledges that jury nullification is a power that any juror has, and there's nothing that a judge can do to the defendant when he's been found not guilty, but in another case it found that jurors don't have to be told about this power.