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Amimnoch

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11. My last one was 6 years ago. It was a prostitution solicitation case.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 09:02 AM
Feb 2019

During the jury selection, one of the questions the judge asked was "how many here feel that prostitution should be legalized." with a fair number of the jury raising their hands. He then followed up with the question "Those that feel it should be legal, are you willing to commit to adhering to the law as it's written when formulating your decision? Please raise your hand if you are not willing to base your decision on the law as it's written."..

That's when I raised my hand and notified him in my belief in the right of juror nullification.
He silenced me mid-sentence.
My comments caused a lot of stirring and side conversations in the jury pool.
Multiple jurors were asking "are we allowed to do that?"
The judge called up the prosecution and defense, had about a 10 minute side discussion.
Dismissed the case and dismissed the jury.

I haven't been called back since.
Note, although I do use quotes up above, it is paraphrased as I didn't transcribe exactly what was said, but it's really close to the actual discussion.

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