if i happened to live in new york and somehow go through voir dire for this case, if either attorney asked me if i knew what jury nullification was, i would say, no, never heard of it. yep, i would just have committed perjury. i can justify this perjury with the fact that there are multiple individuals who sit on the highest court in the land, judges who should be held to highest ethical standards, repeatedly perjured themselves before congress while going through their confirmation proceedings. trust me, i would sleep fine at night. then if selected, i would listen to all the evidence (which seems fairly compelling at this point that the man in custody is the perpetrator). then when the trial is finished and weve been sent back to deliberate, i layout my case for an acquittal without mentioning jury nullification. hopefully, i would be convincing enough to get all the others to reach verdict of not guilty. and if not, then it would be a mistrial because i would never vote to convict this person. why? well, its just like that trolley problem the internet just seems to love. thousands upon thousands, if not millions of people have died due to lack of healthcare because providing those people with the healthcare they need, isnt profitable. the ceos and executives at these healthcare company continually let the trolley stay on the track with multiple people. theyd never give up their cushy gigs, with all its perks and millions of dollars in salary and bonuses. why would they? they dont know those people facing certain death, and they certainly dont care about those people. let them die. so, id be willing to let a murderer go free? in this one instance, yes. we as a society allow these ceo murderers to go free every day. if im controlling the switch on the tracks, im switching it to the track with the ceo to save the thousands laid out on the other track. easy decision, would do every time.
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