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Re: Go ahead, make my day!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:39:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Doesn't this demand that each member of the jury be conversant with the
> (possibly very obscure) laws? How can one's "peers" be expected at any
> time, for instance, to be trusted to interpret the particulars of laws they
> might never previously have heard of (forgive the dangling participle)?
Nope. The Founder Fathers thought they could trust the average venireman to
judge both facts and law, no complicated understanding was supposed to be
needed -- and if it were, perhaps it was not a very good law such that
people could understand and obey it!
If you are asking the broader question of what is Jury Nullification, try here:
http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/BillInfo/FIJA.History.html
Wow! If ever there was evidence of the corruption of our legal and
political heritage it would have to be the need to pass and enforce a
statute in equity to accomplish something obtained de facto at common law!
Funny and sad, all at once...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Doesn't this demand that each member of the jury be conversant with the (possibly very obscure) laws? How can one's "peers" be expected at any time, for instance, to be trusted to interpret the particulars of laws they might never previously (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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