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Educating everyone about jurors' right and responsibility to exercise #jurynullification when a just verdict requires setting aside the law.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
FIJA is the world's best resource on Jury Nullification. We've always been what you get when you "google jury nullification" -- but we need your help to keep going!
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November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Jurors do not need to be informed about nullification to nevertheless have their conscience and good sense bleed out into verdicts.
But, conversely, the more that jurors learn about their rights, the more free they feel to apply their conscience and common sense.
But, conversely, the more that jurors learn about their rights, the more free they feel to apply their conscience and common sense.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Jurors do not need to be informed about nullification to nevertheless have their conscience and good sense bleed out into verdicts.
But, conversely, the more that jurors learn about their rights, the more free they feel to apply their conscience and common sense.
But, conversely, the more that jurors learn about their rights, the more free they feel to apply their conscience and common sense.
Jury Nullification is not some distinct zone of jury resistance, but something that happens *on a spectrum.*
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Jury Nullification is not some distinct zone of jury resistance, but something that happens *on a spectrum.*
Three grand juries and a trial jury all refused to accept Piro's account of assault on an officer. We do not have to believe that those juries reject the law against assault for them to have nullified certain readings and applications of said law.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Three grand juries and a trial jury all refused to accept Piro's account of assault on an officer. We do not have to believe that those juries reject the law against assault for them to have nullified certain readings and applications of said law.
As Lysander Spooner pointed out, juries must inevitably judge not just the "bare facts" but the contours of the law itself; the two are inexorably intertwined.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
As Lysander Spooner pointed out, juries must inevitably judge not just the "bare facts" but the contours of the law itself; the two are inexorably intertwined.
And yet police have repeatedly charged people they were brutalizing with assault for even just bleeding on them.
When it comes to the law, to say nothing of instances of state violence being applied, application of common sense cannot be taken for granted.
When it comes to the law, to say nothing of instances of state violence being applied, application of common sense cannot be taken for granted.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
And yet police have repeatedly charged people they were brutalizing with assault for even just bleeding on them.
When it comes to the law, to say nothing of instances of state violence being applied, application of common sense cannot be taken for granted.
When it comes to the law, to say nothing of instances of state violence being applied, application of common sense cannot be taken for granted.
Commentators have split on this. Many have noted, persuasively, that an officer incidentally getting a minor scuff while shoving around a civilian exercising their constitutional rights should not count as assault on that officer.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Commentators have split on this. Many have noted, persuasively, that an officer incidentally getting a minor scuff while shoving around a civilian exercising their constitutional rights should not count as assault on that officer.
Rather than dropping the case, Pirro took the quite unusual path of charging it as a misdemeanor and taking Reid to trial. Once again, a trial jury was having none of it and acquited.
Was this Jury Nullification?
Was this Jury Nullification?
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Rather than dropping the case, Pirro took the quite unusual path of charging it as a misdemeanor and taking Reid to trial. Once again, a trial jury was having none of it and acquited.
Was this Jury Nullification?
Was this Jury Nullification?