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Tanner v. United States

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Jury Selection

Jury instructions often don't mention jury nullification but will essentially say, if you nullify this, you are either violating the law or violating the oaths you took. It's sort of infamously happened in the trials a few years ago, where the Trump administration was trying to prosecute all those protesters for his inauguration. One of the jurors in one of those trials came back and said, hey, somebody had written Google jury nullification on the inside of a bathroom stall. And then I told all the other jurors about it; that is actually admissible as like outside influence. Just learning about what jury nullification is. But getting fucking ripped, treating your duties so unseriously

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