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Tyranthraxus posted...

It's legally not an option. It's just also the law that jurors can never be held criminally or civilly liable for their verdicts and you can't retry a not guilty verdict. If you nullify, you're committing a crime of perjury by refusing to administer the law as described. Whether or not they can actually prove it is a different matter entirely though.

But if enough people outright say during selection that they will refuse to convict, the case could get dropped. And no one will have committed any crimes.

You cannot be punished for the verdict you give, you aren't committing any crime. Jury nullification is not forbidden, it's allowed. I get you want to play some idiotic game of semantics but fact is jury nullification is allowed, it's not forbidden. If it was forbidden then juries wouldn't be able to do it.