Like shit, how the fuck is it the right of members of the jury to vote however they want when they aren’t even allowed to be told of this right?
“If the evidence fits, you must convict!” What a fucking bullshit lie. That’s literally not true. If the court can lie to you about your fucking right to not send people to prison for bullshit evil drug laws then you should be allowed to lie to them about not knowing what jury nullification is without perjuring yourself.
Regardless, if we found a way to make sure everyone knew about the right to jury nullification, then maybe we could somewhat mitigate some of the damage caused by the evil US correctional system. America delenda est.
I have to disagree with you on that, at least when it comes to ways the criminal justice system constantly fucks over marginalized people with extreme prejudice.
In general, the war on drugs is massively unpopular yet people are still being sent to prison for non-violent drug crimes.
Also, even in the deepest red states, the support for legal abortions is at a minimum of 35%. That’s West Virginia, most red states are in the mid to high 40s on that. To hang a jury, it only takes one juror to vote not guilty in the face of an otherwise unanimous decision to convict. Given a random jury selection process, we’d only need 8.3% (1/12th) of potential jurors to refuse to convict in order to ensure a guilty verdict on abortion is almost never unanimous. Yet people are being sent to prison for abortions and even miscarriages right now. The only way that could be the case is if jurors are voting based on whether the law as written was broken instead of whether the defendant deserves to go to prison.