{"id":795,"date":"2003-02-06T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=795"},"modified":"2004-10-24T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T08:10:05","slug":"the-right-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"the right of defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s odd to see <i>US v Rosenthal<\/i> spun (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierratimes.com\/cgi-bin\/ikonboard\/topic.cgi?forum=14&#038;topic=371\">here<\/a>) as a demonstration of the need for juries to be advised of their power to nullify, after some of the jurors said they <em>would have<\/em> nullified had they known all the facts.  The crime in this case is the judge&#8217;s exclusion of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to hope something good will come of this, but am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s odd to see US v Rosenthal spun (e.g. here) as a demonstration of the need for juries to be advised of their power to nullify, after some of the jurors said they would have nullified had they known all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-drugwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}