Strengths And Weaknesses Of Jury Nullification

Hey Everyone,

So from this weeks lecture I have to say the most intriguing concept was defiantly the concept of jury nullification as prior to this week i believed that the juries sole duty was only to determine whether or not a defendant was responsible for a certain crime and the sentencing was left to the judges. Due to this concept, i believe there are both strengths and weaknesses to the juries rational since this all depends on whether or not the jury sympathises with the defeat. the weakness would be that no matter how guilty a defendant if they are able to get the jury to believe they didn't know what they were doing was wrong or their actions were of malicious intent just something that needed to be done, they could get away with