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If you read all the instruction together (as the judge instructs the jury they are to be taken) it's clear that jury nullification is an option. Defense lawyers argue it, proecutors take time in closing to argue why the juror shouldn't nullify, and every jury convicts only the people they think deserve to be convicted and they acquit the rest. Been on both sides of the issue. Jury nullification sounds like a great populist issue, but it happens every day. In practice it's not much of an issue because jurors do with the charges what they want regardless. OJ receive jury nullification. So did the murderers of Emmit Till. Whether you like jury nullification depends on whose ox is being gored.