Jury nullification (US/UK), jury equity (UK), or a perverse verdict (UK) occurs when the jury in a criminal trial gives a not guilty verdict regardless...

In the United States, jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal case reaches a verdict contrary to the weight of evidence, sometimes because...

com/abstract=1673994 jury nullification definition – Dictionary – MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 2010-12-07. Nullifying the Jury: "The Judicial...

Look up nullification or nullify in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nullification may refer to: Nullification (U.S. Constitution), a legal theory that...

the law, and that jury nullification interferes with this process. It is also debated that instructions permitting jury nullification is to be criticized...

Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, by Clay Conrad, is one of the major book-length treatments of jury nullification. The Federal Lawyer...

punished if it could be demonstrated that they had acted improperly. Jury nullification, called a "perverse verdict" in English law "Bushell's case". Encyclopaedia...

Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which...

majority of whites thought it was a racially motivated jury nullification by the mostly African-American jury. Polling in later years showed the gap had narrowed...

the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the state court. Jury nullification occurred as local Northern juries acquitted men accused of violating the law. Secretary...

strongly opposed to the notion that juries can nullify undesirable laws. In 2008, Clay Conrad, author of Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, quit...

countenance arguments for jury nullification in federal child porn case". entencing.typepad.com. November 6, 2018. "Nullifying Nullification: Will the Second Circuit...

2d 1169 (1989), dissenting Doug Linder. "Jury Nullification: History, questions and answers about nullification, links". law.umkc.edu. Archived from the...

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door to introducing evidence that will assist in seeking jury nullification, and gives the jury an excuse to acquit. A "shadow defense" also may refer to...

"a few of the hills" were corrupted by police fraud resulting in a jury nullification for the murders via an error of impunity. Although three exhibits...

guilty and the verdict was a racially motivated jury nullification by a mostly African-American jury. Current polling shows the gap has narrowed since...

leading criminal law scholar, particularly in the area of race and jury nullification. Butler was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended St. Ignatius...

argued for jury nullification. The prosecution swiftly objected and the jury was told to disregard the argument. On October 26, the jury returned with...

Freedoms. The court also ruled that Latimer was not denied rights to jury nullification, as no such rights exist. The prison sentence was thus upheld, although...

successfully using the Chewbacca Defense to confuse the jury into engaging in jury nullification in a civil lawsuit runs the risk of the losing party winning...

typical fact-finding jury. Shelfer concludes that the instructions were neither anomalous nor an endorsement of jury nullification but rather reflected...

vote to elect a government which defends liberty. The jury box represents using jury nullification to refuse to convict someone being prosecuted for breaking...

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contrary to the law (known as jury nullification), and the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York in 1735 in which jury nullification is credited with establishing...

actually is in a particular case are decided by judges; in rare cases jury nullification of the law may act to contravene or complement the instructions or...

selecting an African-American jury and urging them to acquit Simpson in spite of the evidence against him—a form of jury nullification. Legal scholar Jeffrey...

Racial discrimination in jury selection is specifically prohibited by law in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In the United States, it has been...

Media Editor at Large, Elie Mystal, wrote an article suggesting that jury nullification of crimes by blacks against whites could be used by jurors as a form...