Damn. Or that lady who stepped on a homeless mans food or something and when he yelled at her, her white knight firefighter buddies beat the fuck out of him. Luckily there were witnesses.
Just a hypothesis but that may be because they think that it's ok due to a majority of society telling them that they're allowed to do that with no repercussions.
How would you know jury nullification isn't a common occurrence? It's not something like a rule, it's based on what the jury is thinking. They can think one thing and say another.
But if this was tried before a jury, this would be jury nullification. We have solid evidence it was her, so why would it not apply here? It happens more often than you think and not in a good way.
Again, its human nature, not court-based procedure. Think of it like this- Someones son/daughter is killed via homicide. The person accused is prosecuted and found innocent. But the father of the victim knows it was the accused who committed the crime and saw it happen. The only evidence they can go on is pure memory. So let's say now that the accused is killed by the father of the victim. Jury nullification occurs when the jury finds the accused not guilty even though they have solid evidence t…
Well there's an unspoken thing in court called jury nullification which occurs when the jury understands the consequences and punishments that the defendant should face and believes them to be guilty, but acquits them of their crimes. This is one case where it looks like it went bad.
