Jury Rights & Jury Nullification
Amendment VI of the Federal Constitution
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial,by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,
which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have
compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of
Counsel for his defense.
MEDIA COVERAGE #
LAURA KRIHO CASE (Acquitted Aug 2000) #
Voir Dire : A French Term for Jury Stacking - Mountain Media
Juror Rights are Dealt a Blow - Boulder Weekly
Jury Power & "Drug Peace"! - Amer. Anti-Prohibition League
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Jury Nullification is a Tool for Chaos Foster's Online, 2003 (archive.org)
Jurors with Convictions, Freemarket.net
Trial By Jury, Clay S. Conrad, Cato Institute Dec 1998
What lawyers and judges won't tell you about juries, Progressive Review (1990)
LAURA KRIHO CASE (Acquitted Aug 2000) #
The Jury on Trial - Media Bypass, Dec 1996
ED ROSENTHAL CASE #
Jurors Denounce Their Own Verdict, Ann Harrison, AlterNet Feb 3, 2003
Compassion Challenged, Clay S. Conrad, Cato Institute Feb 2003
The Words of the Founding Fathers
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction...
if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty
they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
-- Alexander Hamilton, 1804
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict
according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience,
though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
--John Adams, 1771
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man
by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1789
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made
by men of their choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they
cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;
if they... undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows
what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow
-- James Madison