of you during voir dire (the technical name for the jury selection process). If you come out and say, “I believe in jury nullification,” you will almost certainly be excluded from the jury.

The sentiment is shared by Cohen, who said there are several “dangers” of jury nullification, especially if it was done through deception during the jury selection process. If people think ...

The jury selection process is designed to weed out people who won’t be impartial. However, Clay S. Conrad, author of Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, says, “It would not surprise me at ...