On a jury, you know your options, guilty or not.

But there's another choice that neither the judge nor the lawyers will tell you, often because they're not allowed to,

and also because it might be better if you don't know.

This video will tell you that third choice, but be warned, simply watching may prevent you from ever serving on a jury.

So this is your last chance to hit the pause button before you learn about.

Jury nullification, when the defendant is 100% beyond a reasonable doubt guilty, but the jurors also think he

shouldn't be punished.

The jury can nullify the law and let him go free.

But before you're on your next jury and yell null-boo-ya at the judge, you should know

that just talking about jury nullification in the wrong circumstances can get you arrested.

Though a video such as this one, simply acknowledging the existence of jury nullification and in no way advocating it is totally okay.

And while we're at it, CTP Gray is not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, is meant for entertainment purposes only, seriously guy,

don't do anything in a court of law based on what an internet video told you, no joke. So why can't you do this? It's because nullification isn't in the law, but exists as a logical consequence of two other laws.

First, the juries can't be punished for a wrong decision no matter what the witnesses, DNA evidence, or video proofs show.

That's the point of a jury, to be the final decider.

And second, when a defendant is found not guilty, that defendant can't be

tried again for the same crime. So there are only two stated options, guilty or not. It's just

that jury nullification is when the words of the jurors don't match their thoughts, for which they

can't be punished and their not guilty decision can't be changed. These laws are necessary for

juries to exist within a fair system, but the logical consequence is contentious.

Lawyers and judges argue about jury nullification like physicists argue about quantum mechanics.

Both are difficult to observe, and the interpretation of both has a huge philosophical ramification for the subject as a whole.

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