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- 32-9 Knowing that knowing about jury nullification will get you out of jury duty makes me bitter.
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You people have too little faith in the system. Plus, you'd have to admit to knowing about it in voire dire to get kicked off (for that reason)/
Though it's happened that a juror was held in contempt for knowing about jury duty and discussing it in session.
Which should never happen.
D'A
If you're asked, and lie, that's not only contempt, but perjury.
Which carries a fairly hefty penalty.
Under what circumstances is a juror required to defend their vote for guilt or innocence?
Slarti: That's not usually the way it goes. Most jurors who know about jury nullification are weeded out during vo dire, most of the rest when they are sworn in. The ones who make it to the jury room have to have lied; in the case I cited above, another juror informed on his fellow juror.
D'A