# What crimes would you personally use your jury nullification power on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953 "2025-03-22T13:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/21 "2025-03-22T19:38:15Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > think it leads to police conflict of interest, as they often are the beneficiaries of the stolen property. And yes, i believe the police routinely steal property from innocent civilians using this legal theory Yeah definitely. And I do have a problem with the police dept getting to keep whatever the seize, that is basically corruption IMO. Still fundamentally if a prosecutor presents evidence to me as a juror that this property is the direct result of harvesting kids organs for profit, or whatever, I have no problem with OKing seizing it. My main issue is the fact none of that is required, it’s just done on the say-so of a cop. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/22 "2025-03-22T19:41:50Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Marijuana crimes would also cause me pause. True, same here, but in CA simple possession (without intent to sell) only has a $100 fine. It used to be a defense in many states that someone “needed killing”. I would listen to such a defense, but the bar would be VERY high. Also someone defending themselves vs rape- but then charged with a weapon possession crime- I dunno, the DA would really have to convince me. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/23 "2025-03-22T20:47:16Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Anybody who punches a Nazi gets an automatic pass from me. Ditto for anyone who drives into a group of Illinois Nazis causing them to jump off a bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/24 "2025-03-22T20:59:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > > > Anybody who punches a Nazi gets an automatic pass from me. > > Ditto for anyone who drives into a group of Illinois Nazis causing them to jump off a bridge. I saw a documentary about that once. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/25 "2025-03-22T21:08:15Z")
Yeah, but look how that ended: the entire Illinois law enforcement community after them. Nazis got clout. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/26 "2025-03-22T21:28:08Z")
I’m hoping that at least one nullificationist makes it onto the Mangione jury. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/27 "2025-03-23T03:42:48Z")
In Texas there is (was – no idea if it still is there) a law saying that thc extracted from weed was counted the same as Heroin. And if you made edibles like pot brownies the weight of the flower, butter etc was counted in the weight. So a single pan of pot brownies was 10-99 years in prison – a stiffer charge than murder. I would nullify the hell out of a case like that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/28 "2025-03-23T14:08:29Z")
> [@bdgr](#): > > And if you made edibles like pot brownies the weight of the **flower** , butter etc was counted in the weight. Bolding mine. Bummer of a typo there. 😉 But yeah, that kind of cynical overreach in law-writing is _exactly_ what nullification was “designed” to prevent. Back in the Dayes Of Yore when “law writing” was something Kings did more or less capriciously. Oh, wait, we aren’t living in _Back to the Future_ here now; it’s _Back to the Past_. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953/29 "2025-03-23T15:49:28Z")
I will not discuss jury nullification so that I might more easily get empaneled for a jury. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-would-you-personally-use-your-jury-nullification-power-on/1015953.md?page=1)