10 Jan
2014
10 Jan
'14
2:24 p.m.
At 05:16 PM 1/8/2014, coderman wrote:
in the US court system, is there an equivalent of jury nullification applied to a judicial ruling?
that is to say: is it possible to plead guilty, but a judge acting to nullify a perceived unjust law, could find you not guilty?
A judge who wanted to do that could dismiss the case instead of asking for a plea. IANAL, but I suspect that a judge who allows a case to get as far as asking the defendents how they plead isn't going to reject a guilty plea. Another way to do what the Quakers wanted to do would have been to plead "no contest" instead of guilty, but I'm sure they had deeply considered what to do beforehand.