Originally Posted by
floridafan
Yes, a judge can overrule a jury:
A judge may only throw out guilty verdicts. He may never overrule a jury that acquits a defendant and then himself declare the defendant guilty. ... Alternatively, a judge can throw out a verdict for any mistake or malfeasance that might prompt a higher court to overturn it.
unless that verdict is not guilty, again.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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