# Why juries? (Or, why do they review only facts?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-juries-or-why-do-they-review-only-facts/117111>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-juries-or-why-do-they-review-only-facts/117111 "2002-07-02T22:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-juries-or-why-do-they-review-only-facts/117111/21 "2002-07-05T12:00:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Hazel \*  
> How often are you going to find a whole jury agreeing that a particular law is so foolish, wrongheaded, unjust, or whatever, that it should never be enforced? Not very often, I’d say.

It only takes one loony juror.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-juries-or-why-do-they-review-only-facts/117111/22 "2002-07-06T20:08:47Z")

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It only takes one loony juror right now, too.

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