{"id":1509,"date":"2021-12-15T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:03:30","slug":"why-arent-juries-informed-of-their-right-to-nullification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/why-arent-juries-informed-of-their-right-to-nullification\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t Juries Informed of Their Right to Nullification?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States juries are not informed by the judge of their right to nullification because the case law addressing jury nullification remains oblique. It is therefore commonly said that in the United States juries are empaneled to resolve issues of fact, but when it comes to nullification, juries have the right but not the power to judge the law. Consequently, a judge will never directly instruct a jury than they judge the law.\u00a0 The reverse is also true; a judge will not instruct a jury that they may not judge the law. In a criminal case, the litigants are also precluded from advising the jury of their right to nullification.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at the history of nullification in the Untied States, it is clear that while the breadth of jury nullification in our criminal justice system has ebbed and flowed it has never entirely gone away. Today a jury sitting on a criminal case may engage in nullification. Since nullification remains a part of our criminal justice system, the question that obtains is this; how much influence can, or should, the judiciary have in limiting or otherwise influencing the jury\u2019s right to nullify?\u00a0 Said differently, as \u201ckeepers of the law,\u201d what role do judges have in explaining or refuting nullification?<\/p>\n<p>In looking at the question of whether or not jurors should be informed of their right to nullify, Irwin A. Horowitz has this to say:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/why-arent-juries-informed-of-their-right-to-nullification\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Why Aren\u2019t Juries Informed of Their Right to Nullification?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States juries are not informed by the judge of their right to nullification because the case law addressing jury nullification remains oblique. It is therefore commonly said that in the United States juries are empaneled to resolve issues of fact, but when it comes to nullification, juries have the right but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8,6,43,27,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-evidence","category-dui-enforcement","category-dui-trials","category-federal-criminal-charges","category-owi","category-sex-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Aren\u2019t Juries Informed of Their Right to Nullification? &#8212; Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; December 15, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the United States juries are not informed by the judge of their right to nullification because the case law addressing jury nullification remains &#8212; December 15, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/why-arent-juries-informed-of-their-right-to-nullification\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why Aren\u2019t Juries Informed of Their Right to Nullification? 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