[3948] in Central_America
Re: New quotes for Fri Dec 20
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Dec 21 23:57:18 1991
No, you can't do anything about being dismissed from a jury. Or, at
least, I haven't heard of anybody suing as the result of being
dismissed and succeeding. Although that may have been one of the jury
nullification cases that went to the SC (I don't know the details.).
Note that if you really believe in this stuff, it is very important to
actually *get onto the jury*, because once you're there, you can vote
not guilty until your face turns blue and (assuming it's a criminal
trial) prevent a guilty verdict. Even a hung jury brings double
jeopardy into the picture, I believe, and the defendant cannot be
tried again.
However, if you give the judge or lawyers reason to dismiss you (and
they may very well believe there is a reason, completely independent
of your views about jury nullification, but there isn't much you can
do about that) and you never make it onto a jury, you lose.
