Jury Nullification is a means by which the common person can effectuate change. You have a right as a juror to refuse to uphold immoral laws. Do not allow a trial to be commandeered by the government. Trial by jury is a right of The People against the Government. It is the means by which the people can express their discontent with the government.
"A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the government."
Supreme Court Justice Byron White
"...[T]he institution of trial by jury especially in criminal cases has its hold upon public favor chiefly for two reasons. The individual can forfeit his liberty to say nothing of his life only at the hands of those who, unlike any official, are in no wise accountable, directly or indirectly, for what they do, and who at once separate and melt anonymously in the community from which they came. Moreover, since if they acquit their verdict is final, no one is likely to suffer of whose conduct they do not morally disapprove; and this introduces a slack into the enforcement of law, tempering its rigor by the mollifying influence of current ethical conventions. A trial by any jury...preserves both these fundamental elements and a trial by a judge preserves neither..."
Judge Learned Hand
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