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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 included a provision outlawing race-based discrimination in jury service. And in 1880, the U.S. Supreme Court in Strauder v. West Virginia struck down a statute restricting jury service to whites.
Jury nullification refers to a jurys knowing and deliberate rejection of the evidence or refusal to apply the law either because the jury wants to send a message about some social issue that is larger than the case itself, or because the result dictated by law is contrary to the jurys sense of justice, morality, or
Jury nullification occurs when jurors, based on their own sense of justice, refuse to follow the law and acquit a defendant even when the evidence presented seems to point to an incontrovertible verdict of guilty.
In 1554, a jury acquitted Sir Nicholas Throckmorton but was severely punished by the court. Almost a century later, in 1649, in the first known attempt to argue for jury nullification, a jury likewise acquitted John Lilburne for his part in inciting a rebellion against Oliver Cromwells regime.
Yes, jury nullification is legal in the United States and many other countries as well.
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In 1860, two Worcester barbers, Francis U. Clough and William H. Jenkins, were the first African Americans selected to serve on a Massachusetts jury or on any jury in the United States.
Arguments against nullification include that it would lead to anarchy; that it is unwise or unnecessary; that it is necessary, but better left implicit; or that an instruction on nullification would impair the responsibility of the jurors by confusing them on their duties.
Arguments against nullification include that it would lead to anarchy; that it is unwise or unnecessary; that it is necessary, but better left implicit; or that an instruction on nullification would impair the responsibility of the jurors by confusing them on their duties.
This may sound radical, perhaps even subversive, but jury nullification serves as an important safeguard against unjust laws, as well as against the unfair application of well‐​intended laws. Its also steeped in American and British legal tradition.
Nullification is usually considered to be an act by a state finding a federal law unconstitutional, and declaring it void and unenforceable in that state. A nullification act often makes it illegal to enforce the federal law in question.

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