• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, if someone clearly breaks a law, then they clearly broke the law. A jury isn’t allowed to change what the law is, that would create an undesirable domino effect and undermine the whole point of an elected legislature. Change the case’s matter into any other less morally gray case and the State’s logic makes more sense.

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      2 months ago

      A jury isn’t allowed to change what the law is

      Maybe not, but the whole reason jury nullification exists is so that if the jury feels the law is unjust or the reason a person broke the law is so wholly justified they have a way to rule accordingly

      It’s an important cornerstone of our legal system. Laws are written by humans and they can be flawed and/or unjust or written for malicious purposes. There should always be a failsafe lever to pull in the legal system and jury nullification is that failsafe

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        2 months ago

        And the only reason he can be retried is that not all jurors agreed. Had they just refused to enforce the law, then they walk free forever (at least from that crime).

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      2 months ago

      If the jury can’t make one time exceptions to the law then there’s no reason to have a jury. The entire point of a jury is to prevent the government from oppressing the people via the court room.