[Jury Nullification] is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury’s reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust

Until the wealthy and powerful are held to account, why punish your fellow everyday citizens? Use your brain. Decide if what they’re charging people with is suppression or actually keeping society safe.

When those prosecutors start losing these cases, maybe they will start to rethink who they are focusing on.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 day ago

    we want jury nullification to come from individual conclusions that this law does not apply despite the circumstances, and not because they know they can.

    There is an ongoing shift towards fascism, and at least for now the courts still have power over whether or not people get to walk free.

    So there is more to it than your letting on. We’re gonna see cases of people who have done illegal things because the fascists in power decided to make existence defacto illegal for people.

    An example of this is the bans on transgender people from using bathrooms other than their assigned sex. If I’m ever a juror on a case like that, I’m fucking voting not guilty, and everybody else should too.

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      118 hours ago

      Or it will be used to let fascists off, because their supporters will vote fucking not guilty and say that everyone else should too.

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        28 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s why you don’t share this with fascists.

        And for the most part, it’s generally not the case that fascists find themselves in the hot seat, because their buddies are cops, or themselves are cops. The rule of law was never truly applied to them in the first place.