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Jury refuses to convict four Palestine activists accused of arms firm raid
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Does the UK have jury nullification?
For that matter, wondering about EU, as well.
I think it's an unavoidable possibility in any place that allows juries to vote, right? Like the court can try and crack down on it in any number of ways (and in the US they do). But at the end of the day if a juror wants to vote a certain way and isn't required to provide reasoning, they can simply vote to acquit.
I dunno I'm not a lawyer
In my jurisdiction, not telling the court you are aware of jury nullification during jury selection is illegal. Kind of hard to prove if one refuses to convict and keeps it to themselves, though.
Yeah like they can definitely ban it de jure and furiously try to clamp down on it from various angles. But de facto it's kind of a built-in loophole of jury systems.
Yes, Palestine Action was also acquitted by a Jury but then the UK regime did a retrial where they censored all details about the case to the jury, and (like this case) only asked the jury whether the protesters engaged in vandalism. Then they used a legal loophole to slap terrorism charges on top of the guilty verdict.
There's no low the UK regime won't stoop to for Israel so they'll likely force a retrial here as well.
Not quite accurate. A jury acquitted the defendants of some of the charges but failed to reach a verdict on the rest, so a retrial was mounted for the outstanding charges, and in that retrial certain things will not have been permitted to be presented in court so the convictions already in wouldn’t be prejudicial for the retrial jury.
Thanks for the nonsense genocide apologism word salad
If you think clarifying documented events is such an inconvenience you have to make wild ad hominem attacks, I do apologise for the inconvenience.
Doesn’t change the facts though, just as the trial doesn’t impact the genocide.
You're not clarifying anything just repeating regime propaganda.
Heaven forbid!
It will be lovely, good, and pure if this case gets the other convictions vacated, somehow.
Yep, we call it jury equity. This has been a point of much contention in regards to protest cases in the recent years, starting with some XR cases, JSO ones and now Palestine Action ones. People have been arrested for holding signs telling jurors their rights, using wording from a plaque that's in one of our highest courts. Here's some background from a group that's protesting against the quashing of this right and potential removal of jury trials: https://defendourjuries.net/about-doj/
Ohhh, brilliant share! Thank you!
I don't think any country in the EU has jury trials