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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (62488)	10/12/2002 12:18:14 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think it is funny that this article suggests that instead juries subvert democracy Perhaps what he meant was that nullification subverts the legal system. In Virginia, juries decide both guilt or innocence and the sentence. So a jury can find someone guilty but impose a token penalty to express displeasure with the law. It seems to me that the best approach is to give juries some type of twofer. Maybe juries could have the choice of not guilty, guilty, and "who cares." I'm troubled by jury nullification because it blows off the law, which is not a good symbol in a country that is based on the rule of law. OTOH, I like giving a jury the opportunity to express its opinion on the law or on the charging of the particular defendant under the law.