Your Jury Rights: True or False?

TL;DR — A two-page advocacy brochure from the Fully Informed Jury Association telling prospective jurors about jury nullification, their power to acquit when they judge a law unjust.

A tri-fold print brochure (the file still shows the printer’s fold, trim and bleed marks) from the Fully Informed Jury Association of Helena, Montana. It argues that jurors may vote their conscience and cannot be punished for their verdicts, that early American judges told jurors they could judge the law as well as the facts, and that courts began discouraging this in the nineteenth century, for example to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

It lists historical and modern uses of nullification and describes how judges remove jurors who mention it. Despite the download’s filename, it is not a guide to avoiding jury service.

What it is: an advocacy pamphlet from an interest group. Its claims are contested: courts generally hold that juries may acquit but need not be told so.

Where this came from

• A copy saved in October 2026.

2 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.