If the Law Is Bullshit, You Must Acquit

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http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/56128/if-the-law-is-bullshit-you-must-acquit

If the Law Is Bullshit, You Must Acquit
by Thom Hartmann | May 28, 2014 - 9:28am

You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so.

Imagine for a second that you've been selected as a juror for the trial of someone like Jacob Lavoro, the 19-year-old Austin, Texas man currently facing anywhere from five years to life in prison for making a pound-and-a-half of pot brownies.

You know that based on the all evidence presented by the prosecution that the defendant is probably guilty, but you and other jurors on the case have serious doubts about convicting him because you know that doing so will ruin the defendant's life.

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Easy - you use your power of jury nullification. You declare the defendant "not guilty" regardless of the evidence and let him walk free, "nullifying" the unjust or unfair law.

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Read all about jury nullification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification