Reply #54: Why would you not like it? The FFs specifically wanted [View All]

the people to be able to nullify laws that they knew would be passed for nefarious reasons sometimes.

Without the jury having the ability to judge the law itself, many people have spent time in jail because of bad laws, not bad acts.

Here's an example. The Feds went after a pot farmer who, in his state, was abiding by the law. The jury was not told that the sentence, if they found him guilty under the Fed law, would be 30 years in jail.

After they realized what they had done, several of them said if they had known the consequences and known they did not have to find him guilty if they felt the law itself was wrong, which they did, they would not have done so.

If even one of them had known about jury nullification, that miscarriage of justice would have been avoided.

It is a way to end bad laws. If I were ever on a MJ jury, I would definitely go for jury nullification.