Re:The Economics of the American Prison System
by tunesmith on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:22PM
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Why do you have to get the rest of the jury to agree with it? Isn't it sufficient to have eleven people wanting to convict based off of law, and one person voting no (and sticking to it) because of disagreeing with the law?
Then to top it off, you have to get all members of the jury to agree to it. With that you run up against morals and predispositions of the various jurors. It would have to be a pretty damn extreme law, one unfavorable with the public as a whole, to get caught up by a nullification and you can be the authorities would do their best to stack the deck