http://blogofbile.com/2008/08/14/juror-dismissed-from-drug-case-for-asking-about-prohibition-constitutionality/ from the bowels of the mind Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:38:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blogofbile.com/2008/08/14/juror-dismissed-from-drug-case-for-asking-about-prohibition-constitutionality/#comment-2530 Dave Lynch Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:28:09 +0000 http://blogofbile.com/?p=1560#comment-2530 In one of the seminal pre-revolutionary cases, likely responsible for the first amendment, a case all of our founding fathers, and most citizens would have been aware of - Zenger was aquitted after hsi attorney argued openly that the law was wrong. While there is some case law that basically makes jurry nullification something we must do in secret, modern defendants and their lawyers are denied the right the British gave Zenger's attorney hamilton to argue that the law was wrong, but it is far from correct to claim this is a decided issue. The US Supreme court has not spoken on it. Though Scalia has made some sureal remarks about jury nullification in the context of jack bauer, 24 and nuking los angles In one of the seminal pre-revolutionary cases, likely responsible for the first amendment, a case all of our founding fathers, and most citizens would have been aware of - Zenger was aquitted after hsi attorney argued openly that the law was wrong. While there is some case law that basically makes jurry nullification something we must do in secret, modern defendants and their lawyers are denied the right the British gave Zenger’s attorney hamilton to argue that the law was wrong, but it is far from correct to claim this is a decided issue. The US Supreme court has not spoken on it. Though Scalia has made some sureal remarks about jury nullification in the context of jack bauer, 24 and nuking los angles

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