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South Dakota voters are currently considering whether to allow individual juries to acquit criminal defendants accused of violating laws deemed “misguided or draconian.” This power, known as jury nullification, would base criminal convictions on juries’ judgment not only on the facts of...
Amendment A sets a dangerous precedent by allowing individual interpretation of what must be a common legal code. Order and stability in our society are guaranteed by the existence of a single standard of conduct that all citizens must obey. Regardless of whether an individual agrees with the justice of...
When juries usurp the role of the legislature by deciding the wisdom of a law, there can be terrible consequences—exemplified by the refusal of some Southern juries to convict defendants for lynching blacks in the late nineteenth century. Jury nullification undermines the fairness of the legal system...
IRIN also reported that Mughogho was the first person arrested since Muluzi, whose second five-year term ends in 2004, ordered police and the military to suppress any demonstrations against the proposed amendment.
After his release last week, Mughogho told IRIN that said that he would not give up his fight against the amendment.