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Secondly, unless you are trusting in nullification, the jury will convict: Grandpa did indeed give the gun to Joey across state lines.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill 2010

Yes, jury nullification is technically illegal, but nobody ever gets convicted of it.

Matthew Yglesias » Breitbart on Podesta 2010

Secondly, unless you are trusting in nullification, the jury will convict: Grandpa did indeed give the gun to Joey across state lines.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill 2010

Jury nullification is the common law principle that permits juries to refuse to convict somebody who is demonstrably guilty of violating the law.

Waldo Jaquith - On jury nullification. 2006

The existence of and availability of jury nullification is an essential element of maintaining the legitimacy of the system.

Waldo Jaquith - On jury nullification. 2006

Within the context of informing juries about the sentencing range that will result from a “guilty” verdict, the group acknowledged that jury nullification is a power inherent to the jury, as well as the existence of the debate over whether juries should be informed about the power.

Waldo Jaquith - On jury nullification. 2006

On Jefferson's birthday some of the people who believed in nullification gave a dinner to which Jackson was invited and asked to propose a toast.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

At this point disunion was in full flower, and the terms nullification, secession, treason, rebellion, revolution, coercion, constitute the current political vocabulary.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

At this point disunion was in full flower, and the terms nullification, secession, treason, rebellion, revolution, coercion, constitute the current political vocabulary.

Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866

Calhoun, perhaps the state's most celebrated national figure, turned this instinct into a policy - "nullification" - in the decades before the

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