A new wrinkle to me.
Every case that comes before a jury trial so official, usually the DA, has decided the defendant broke some law or laws.
Sometimes there is circumstances that make you say, yeah but...
There is a provision in the constitution where the Jury can decide the defendant is guilty but the law is unfair in this case and acquit the defendant by voting to nullify the law.
It’s nullified only for this case, but the defendant can’t be retried.
Law enforcement and judges have fought hard to squelch this information.
I read one judge locked the jury in the room for 4 days with no food, water or toilet.
Lawyers are forbidden to tell the jury about it and any juror mentions it is off the jury immediately.


 
I can see good and bad.
Local rancher shoots a hippie sleeping in his barn.
The jury is 12 of his neighbors and his employees.
No way they’d convict him.
 
All 12 jurors wearing MAGA hats? Ay caramba !
 
On the other hand local officials acting like a HOA passing stupid rules.
It’s a chance for the people to fight back.
Or someone at odds with the local powers that be prosecuted with a 200 year old statute nobody heard of.
Judge Roy Bean gone wild.