Contumacious
Radical Freedom
You said exactly what I inferred; that the crime and punishment phase are separate and distinct. And the jury should not have taken the punishment phase into consideration when determining the crime.
Thanks for giving me a lesson on law from Wikipedia. I'll be sure and throw away all my legal hornbooks, case law, and Pacific Reporters. They're so outdated....
That is totally and completely false.
US Juries have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to judge the Law and the Facts.
American Juries are not the Judges or prosecutors' handmaiden.
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Confusedatious got it wrong again.
American juries judge the FACTS. Judges address the law.
When juries occasionally foray into deciding whether or not they "like" a particular law, they do so at the peril of our system of justice (generally speaking). That doesn't mean that they can't do it. Obviously, if they choose to say "not guilty" even when the facts prove guilty beyond all doubt, they still can. But jury nullification can undermine our entire system. It has sometimes led to justice. But the danger is always present that it will lead to some very different outcomes.
Mr Fucktard, Sir:
I sent you out for a few months to wise up and what happens? You get dummer.
I understand that as a government supremacist , you prefer a stacked jury in favor of the prosecution.
But here learn about JURY NULLIFICATION
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