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Vigilantism Using the Forms of Law: Still Vigilantism

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To my dismay, at least twice in comment threads about the acquittal of Zimmerman, commenters have argued that under principles of jury nullification, it would be right for the jury to have convicted Zimmerman even if the prosecution didn’t prove its case.

Um, step back and think about this for a second. You want the jury to impose a punishment it doesn’t believe the law warrants. In a case where an unarmed person was killed by a vigilante. In a former Jim Crow state. Really, no. One moral wrong does not make authoritarianism right. There are cases where juries refusing to impose punishments is justifiable, but nullification to impose punishment is an entirely different and categorically indefensible thing.

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