Re: Jury Nulification

Dan Fabulich (dfab@cinenet.net)
Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:26:16 -0700


At 07:25 PM 7/12/97 -0700, John K Clark wrote:

>I think it's great and I know for a fact they are magic words, they can
>instantly get you out of involuntary servitude. I was called for jury
slavery
>recently, I did not want to be there and the pay stank. When questioned by
>the judge in open court the first thing I said was "I believe in jury
>nullification because..." and the judge interrupted and said "Thank you
>Mr. Clark you are dismissed".

I'm intrigued... I've never even heard of jury nullification before. What
is it?

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