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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation by RankingMember on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:46PM (#21578085)
> Amendment 7: The point of a jury trial is that the jury can choose not to enforce a bad law. The legal system misinforms jurors about this to keep jury trial from being meaningful.

I lean in favor of the practice of jury nullification, but I can't see how you can make the argument that juries exist expressly to judge good vs bad laws.

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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation by btilly on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:04PM (#21578805)
I say it because the historical debate on the 7th amendment centered on jury nullification. People from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson cited the fact that juries could refuse to convict under bad laws as a final defense against unjust government.
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