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Heh. I haven’t heard anyone talk about jury nullification since law school, where oddly enough, two of my professors had a very heated proxy debate (i.e. they had their student followers debating for them).
I don’t know; why should it be any worse than getting a majority of 535 egomaniacs to agree? I figure that jury nullification should be a partial offset for taking the election of senators away from the state legislatures.
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January 31st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Heh. I haven’t heard anyone talk about jury nullification since law school, where oddly enough, two of my professors had a very heated proxy debate (i.e. they had their student followers debating for them).
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I don’t know; why should it be any worse than getting a majority of 535 egomaniacs to agree? I figure that jury nullification should be a partial offset for taking the election of senators away from the state legislatures.