{"id":1083,"date":"2021-10-25T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-53\/jury-nullification-fixing-the-law-when-politicians-wont\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:09:28","slug":"jury-nullification-fixing-the-law-when-politicians-wont","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-53\/jury-nullification-fixing-the-law-when-politicians-wont\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Nullification: Fixing the Law When Politicians Won\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire is poised to be the first state in the country to pass\u00a0legislation requiring judges to inform juries of their right to \u201cnullify.\u201d\u00a0Jury nullification has existed since the nation\u2019s founding and allows\u00a0juries to acquit defendants in cases where conviction would proper under\u00a0the law but would result in an unjust verdict. The Supreme Court,\u00a0however, has held that judges are not required to tell juries of their right\u00a0to nullify, and some states have even allowed arresting individuals who\u00a0inform juries of their right to nullify. New Hampshire\u2019s move towards\u00a0requiring judicial instructions about jury nullification is thus exciting and\u00a0daunting all at the same time\u2014it is an opportunity to see what could\u00a0happen if juries really know about nullification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/53-0-Ainsworth-jury-nullification.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire is poised to be the first state in the country to pass\u00a0legislation requiring judges to inform juries of their right to \u201cnullify.\u201d\u00a0Jury nullification has existed since the nation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4766,"featured_media":0,"parent":1030,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083\/revisions\/1709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}