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16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame

Writing Excuses

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The Principle of Jury Nullification

The jury, in legal terms, is allowed to be wrong, but their decision is final. The principle of jury nullification will never be explained ajury in a court room because none of the attorneys, nor the judge, nor the defendant, nobody wants the jurors to know that. We can just sit here and twiddle our thumbs, and at the end we can decide something. And now we really are in a terribly morally ambiguous that's actually not ambiguous, that's just really dark brown a thee.

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