• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Please see my reply to the other comment - you’re assuming the pool of jurors contains enough people that would consider nullification. As far as I’m aware, the defense has no influence on this pool itself. So how do you know that the jurors the defense can choose from are actually randomly selected?

    It’s pretty much a given that the state knows your opinion on jury nullification if you’ve ever publicly posted about it. Hell, based on the Snowden leaks there’s a good chance they know it if you’ve ever mentioned it over e.g. the telephone. How can you be sure that this knowledge isn’t used to bias the jury pool?

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      I saw your other comment after I made this one. You bring up valid points. I think we should throw the whole country out and start over personally.