"So you see, in an American courtroom there are in a sense twelve
judges in attendance, not just one."

Would there not be thirteen, twelve jurors and the person in robes
with the gavel?
-Erik

On 5/2/05, Eric Shubes <plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> 
> > In other words, government bad, civil disobedience good.
> > :-)
> >
> A little known aspect of jurisprudence is jury nullification.
> See http://www.caught.net/juror.htm or just googling jury nullification.
> 
> If you know your power and responsibility as a juror, you'll (sadly) not
> likely be selected. Judges dislike informed juries.
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
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