The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
Harlan F. StoneRead

Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States · Unknown · 1872 – 1946
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The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
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