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What you are referencing is an edge case (and an old one at that). A more recent one is the OJ trial. But those are perfect examples of bad jurors. It's up to you and your peers to be good jurors. What system do you suggest?
It's all an edge case. Nullification isn't an intended right, it's an unavoidable loophole. It's the necessary consequence of a system where no one is allowed to tell a juror how to vote or demand that they justify their decision: there's no way to maintain those requirements and also punish jurors for ignoring the law completely, so we just ask them to pretty please not do that. And that's fine. It's certainly bette…
IMO the biggest role of the jury is to blackball the state's conveyer belt to imprisonment on a case-by-case basis. It really needs to become harder than it is for the state to put someone in a concrete and iron box.