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Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by tracker1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:19PM (#20176866)
Judges can and often do, set expectations on scope and consideration the jury should take into consideration. That doesn't mean that jury nullification cannot happen, however no judge will generally let any jury know that they're even allowed to do that.
Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by empath75 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:07PM (#20177264)
acquittal is not nullification.
Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by cyphar on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:18PM (#20179088)
Jury nullification is a specific term[1] referring to when a jury knows that a particular defendant is guilty of a crime but they decide to find them not guilty because they believe the law to be unjust. There are many examples of this occurring in history, and this exists as a unwritten legal concept as a logical consequence of two explicit legal concepts:

* Juries cannot be punished or reprimanded for coming to the "wrong decision". * A defendant who is acquitted cannot be tried again in front of a jury because of the defense of double jeopardy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by tracker1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:12PM (#20177300)
When someone technically violated the law, but the jury doesn't convict is.
Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by 8note on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:29PM (#20178296)
when somebody technically violated the law, but there's reasonable doubt, it's not nullification
Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by tracker1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:11PM (#20179029)
I'm not talking about when there is doubt... I'm literally talking about jury nullification. Why do you keep insisting on setting it up as though I'm saying something else?
Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by cyphar on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:18PM (#20179090)