"At the time of the jury selection, I was not as well-versed in understanding how state prosecutors ask questions that screen out people such as myself, people that follow the footsteps of the jury system’s founders like Thomas Jefferson in understanding the individual’s responsibility to judge the moral character of the law through the peer-review system of jury trials. Even Jefferson’s arch-rival John Adams wrote in his diary of the jurist, “It is not only his right, but his duty… to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.”
If one were to ask how to properly operate a Model T, it would be smart to consult the operating manual drafted by Henry Ford. However, for some reason, it does not seem to apply to the operation of the jury system of law in the United States. Juries are largely shielded from considering the legal system Founders’ own operating manuals for how juries are a tool to check the snowballing power of immoral laws that use violence against nonviolent persons."
https://fee.org/articles/jurors-must-stand-between-the-state-and-its-victims/
If one were to ask how to properly operate a Model T, it would be smart to consult the operating manual drafted by Henry Ford. However, for some reason, it does not seem to apply to the operation of the jury system of law in the United States. Juries are largely shielded from considering the legal system Founders’ own operating manuals for how juries are a tool to check the snowballing power of immoral laws that use violence against nonviolent persons."
https://fee.org/articles/jurors-must-stand-between-the-state-and-its-victims/