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"The attitude is, do what you have to legally do to prevent a Paris-style attack in the US," he said, "and I think there are a lot of prosecutors out there who would say, 'I would rather prosecute a case and take the chance on losing on technicality or jury nullification than take a chance to not prosecute on terrorism charges".

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

By the turn of the century, these qualms had spread widely enough to make jury nullification a problem: jurors were acquitting young lawbreakers rather than imposing sentences that would lock them up with adults.

The lawyers, Sabrina Shroff and Steven M. Statsinger, said the prosecution of Mr. Heicklen would only draw attention to the nullification issue and would "surely convert more to the cause than poor Mr. Heicklen ever could on his own".

Other than the extremely limited situations in which someone seeks to influence a known juror in a case, jury nullification advocacy is squarely protected by the First Amendment".

"This was jury nullification".

Jury nullification has an ambiguous history.

But he called nullification "kooky".

It requires the nullification of personal loans.

It's not a nullification.

Dusting off the polemics of nullification, the supposed "law and order" politicians in Jefferson City would rather support an unconstitutional measure than set a law-abiding example of government responsibility.

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