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In the Anglo-American tradition, juries cannot nullify, make, or frankly do anything else with law. What they can do is decide the facts. Jury nullification is the jury legally denying the facts, no matter how observably true they are. Because legally speaking the jury determines the facts, that’s that. A judge can overrule a guilty verdict, but not an innocent one.



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