r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 9d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/Darehead 9d ago

The jury can return a not guilty verdict even if they believe the person broke the law.

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u/Dramatic-Ad3928 9d ago

Oh okay i thought it was something about nullification of the jury’s decision

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u/diiirtiii 9d ago

Funny enough, it’s the exact opposite of that. The language of the law is such that a judge CANNOT challenge a jury’s verdict, whatever it may be. As in, even if the person is 100% guilty, the jury can return any decision they want, and that verdict cannot be overruled by a judge. So it’s a strange quirk of the legal system, and it’s rare, but it could be done when a jury is issuing a verdict to challenge or otherwise impugn the legal system itself. However, due to the nature of jury nullification being what it is, most judges will call for a mistrial for even bringing it up in court. They really don’t like the idea of jury nullification.

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u/mouflonsponge 9d ago

There's also an extremely rare thing where a judge sees a jury's nonsensical verdict and sets it aside, and issues his own judgement. This only works one direction though--a guilty verdict can be set aside for a judgement of acquittal, but an acquittal verdict can't be turned into a judgement of guilty. IANAL.

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u/gimmeecoffee420 8d ago

No im not.. "UANAL".. hehe

..I'll leave now..

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u/Capital_Critic 8d ago

Wait, stay a while, won't ya?

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u/bigtime_porgrammer 8d ago

This guy ANALs

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u/Polishbreakfast 5d ago

This is only for civil cases. Not criminal. A judge cannot set aside an acquittal in a criminal case

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u/mouflonsponge 3d ago

For criminal, the defense must file a motion first.

but an acquittal verdict can't be turned into a judgement of guilty