. JURORS HAVE NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO NULLIFY LAW
SK/N01.01) David Karman [Georgetown U. Law Center], GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS, Summer 2015, LexisNexis Academic, pp. 620-621. This negative assessment of nullification leads to the conclusion that a jury's nullification power “is not an intended component of our modern criminal justice system. Rather, it is an unavoidable consequence of the various procedural safeguards imposed on the system in order to protect values deemed more fundamental than the prevention of jury nullification. Thus, the existence of the jury's nullification power in no way leads to the conclusion that jurors possess a constitutional right to nullify the law.” The court has generally established this position
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|Course: | |LAWS & HIST 3305 C & V – Crime and State in History |
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