JURY NULLIFICATION: Jurors Flex Their Muscles.

USA Today (Magazine) | November 1, 1999| | Copyright

Of all constitutional rights, none of them have a longer or more auspicious pedigree than that of trial by jury, which is guaranteed no less than three times in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. First, the Founding Fathers guaranteed citizens accused of crime a trial by jury in Article III Section 2. That wasn't good enough, though. Fearing people might be tried away from their homes, friends, and families, they drafted the Sixth Amendment, guaranteeing that the trial would take place in the same district in which the crime was committed. Then, for good measure, they ...

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