Montanans are praised for bringing a proposal to amend that state’s constitution to require judges in all criminal trials to explicitly advise juries of their authority to judge not only the facts but also the validity of the law and the justice of applying it in the particular case.
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Tags: constitution, courts, FIJA, Holmes, jury, nullification, prohibition
