"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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