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JURY NULLIFICATION NEEDED

If judges continue to deny affirmative defense in medical marijuana cases in spite of medical marijuana laws, jury nullification is the only hope for change.

With so many citizens being arrested for marijuana, I feel that it is time for people to know the meaning of jury nullification.  Judges almost never inform prospective jurors of this option.

Jury nullification is a constitutional doctrine allowing juries to acquit defendants who are technically guilty but don't deserve punishment.  When a jury disregards the evidence and acquits an otherwise guilty defendant, it has practiced jury nullification.

If the judge fails to provide the wording of the law or you think the law is a bad or unconstitutional law or a good law being improperly applied, or there are other factors that would make you regret a vote to convict someone, then it is your right and duty as a juror to vote "not guilty" even if you are the only juror who does so and therefore hang the jury.

The prisons are being filled with innocent people for a plant that the citizens voted for in the state of Washington.  The courts continue to ignore the will of the people.

Gloria Cole

Reardan, Wash.