SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Favors Jury Nullification

Re:SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Favors Jury Nullification by mordant on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:40PM (#11996860)

Jury nullification is a powerful tool for reining in prosecutorial overreach, and for correcting perceived injustice in corner-cases (pun intended).

This is about the only topic on which I agree with Justice Sotomayor.

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Re:SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Favors Jury Nullification by AcerbicZero on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:41PM (#11997385)

I generally disagree with her as well, but her recent dissent on Utah v. Strieff was pretty good. Almost sounded like Scalia rose from the dead to write a few paragraphs.

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Re:SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Favors Jury Nullification by pc2g4d on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:32PM (#11998419)

Just read that, and I think Sotomayor nailed it. I also thought it was too bad that Scalia wasn't part of the case---perhaps he could have turned the tide.

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