Opinion by JUDGE YUN.
¶ 1 A jury has the discretionary power to acquit a defendant, even if each juror believes the defendant to be guilty according to the law and the evidence. This is called jury nullification. While appellate courts recognize that juries have this de facto power, they uniformly agree that trial courts should not encourage...
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