{"id":1233,"date":"2011-12-23T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/23\/jurors-can-say-no\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:25","slug":"jurors-can-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/23\/jurors-can-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurors Can Say No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/865893429\/jurors-can-say-no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/865893429\/jurors-can-say-no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/8IERVacJCJhwdFisffc9zzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Jury nullification is premised on the idea that ordinary citizens, not government officials, should have the final say as to whether a person should be punished.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/21\/opinion\/jurors-can-say-no.html?_r=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Jury nullification is premised on the idea that ordinary citizens, not government officials, should have the final say as to whether a person should be punished.Via nytimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/07\/29\/survey-your-views-on-us-customs-plan-to-search\/","url_meta":{"origin":1233,"position":0},"title":"SURVEY: Your views on US Customs&#8217; plan to search your social media at the border","author":"aslam","date":"July 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"mostlysignssomeportents: Deji from Access Now writes, \u201cYou remember that spooky story about the U.S. screening everyone\u2019s social media \u2018presence\u2019 at the border? 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