Plodcast Ep. 88 - Jury Nullification, C.S. Lewis On Politics and Natural Law, Anosios

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🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week Pastor Wilson talks about jury nullification and gives us his personal account of being jury duty himself. Then he plods on to review Justin Dyer and Micah Watson’s book, “C.S. Lewis On Politics and Natural Law”. Then Pastor Wilson wraps things up by taking a look at the Greek word anosios. Happy Plods! Show Notes: Jury Nullification: Juries have authority over the law and not just over the person accused Pastor Wilson was selected to be the foreman of a jury If you have the opportunity to serve in a jury you should You should also read up on jury nullification before you serve C.S. Lewis On Politics and Natural Law: Written by Justin Dyer and Micah Watson C.S. Lewis claims to be bored by politics, but this book shows C.S. Lewis was a sophisticated political thinker He is profoundly conservative in his outlook on politics, and is very much a classical liberalist If you are interested in political theory, natural law, political science, and C.S. Lewis then this is your book Anosios: Rendered as unholy Used in 1 Tim. 1:9, 2 Tim. 3:2 Too many Christians see holiness in terms of a seraphic countenance and an implied halo, and thusly see unholiness as the mere absence of that -- a state of being ordinary But as Paul uses unholy here, it means polluted and defiled

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0:00.0	Yes, God. God. So welcome to the
0:18.5	to the broadcast episode 88 good to have you with me good to have me me with you however however you're configuring this in your head.
0:28.8	So for our initial topic or a theme of this
0:34.0	plodcast, I wanted to talk a little bit about jury
0:37.0	nullification.
0:39.0	And I want to define what jury nullification is first, and then maybe tell a little
0:45.4	autobiographical story, and then talk about why this is important.
0:51.0	Jury nullification is the doctrine that when a jury is convened and they are sitting in a trial, they are doing, they have authority to judge both the defendant and the law.
1:07.0	All right, so when a jury is convened, this is what the doctrine holds.
1:10.7	When the jury is convened, they are sitting in judgment on the defendant,
1:14.4	is he guilty or not guilty of the crime alleged?
1:19.6	And if they determine that he is guilty of the of the crime as the as the law prohibits it on paper but they
1:29.7	say that law is a stupid law the jury can come back with a not guilty verdict, not because
1:37.2	they're saying that the defendant didn't do it, right?
1:41.7	Let's say you've got one of those arcane laws that you read about on the internet.
1:45.8	Never spit back at a llama or something, you know.
1:49.5	Or you've got some arcane law and someone has brought up on charges and it's not
2:00.2	disputed by anyone on the jury that the person accused or charged of violating that law
2:06.2	did in fact violate that law.
2:09.2	But if the jury thinks the law is a stupid law, they can come back with a not guilty verdict and there's nothing anybody can do about
2:16.7	it, which means that juries have authority over the law and not just over the person accused under the law.
2:25.6	Now, the anecdote or the story from a number of years ago,
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