Sentence examples for nullification is from inspiring English sources

That concept, called jury nullification, is highly controversial, and courts are hostile to it.

The concept of jury nullification is more complex than Mr. Butler suggests.

The information I have just provided — about a constitutional doctrine called "jury nullification" — is absolutely true.

Jury nullification is not new; its proponents have included John Hancock and John Adams.

In that system, encouraging jury nullification is a recipe for arbitrariness instead of informed judgment.

The authors conclude that jury nullification is an unlikely factor in the vast majority of jury trials.

Romanus probably invalidated Stephen's acts, although formal nullification was not promulgated until a few years later by Pope John IX.

Sen. John C. Calhoun, the architect of nullification, was the major spokesman for the South until his death in 1850.

Judge Lynch acknowledged that nullification was "a kind of civil disobedience" that was not to be encouraged and indeed was prohibited by law.

But more frequently, nullification was used to frustrate justice, she added, citing hung juries in the 1964 trials of Byron De La Beckwith in Mississippi for the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers the previous year.

Secession and nullification are not new ideas.