- Joined
- Dec 16, 2023
You'll be arrested and charged with jury tampering and worse. The judge and lawyers will throw you out of a jury pool if they get even a whiff of it. If you hand out informational pamphlets to people as they walk into court they'll throw the book at you.
Our best hope for a jury trial is where someone who knows jury nullification gets past voir dire (this is the legal name and phase where they determine if jurors are fair and impartial, where potential jurours are "dismissed" for cause or because the prosecution or defense doesn't want them on the jury [each side gets to "strike" {dismiss a potential juror} a certain number of potential jurors for no reason, but it is very limited]) and influences the trial as either a not guilty, or at a minimum, hung jury.
The person would have to be at least a little intelligent and a least a little bit of a sociopath to be able to completely conceal their true feelings and make it appear that they are impartial, until deliberations. To the best of my knowledge, most prosecutors offices and defense firms have experts at voir dire where the best have almost a preternatural ability to sus out what a potential juror is really thinking. The abilities of some defense firms lawyers to determine what a potential juror is thinking during voir dire is borderline eerie.