"...ask yourself why there are NO juries in appeals court only judges?"

I thought appeals courts were used when someone who didn't like the verdict in the trial court, and tried to get a new trial based on law interpretation, errors in facts, or due process? In cases like that, what good would a jury of ignorant nitwits be?

"The role of a jury is to help decide the facts of the case, not judge the law."

I just looked at your profile, and it says you are an attorney.

Is it not true that a jury can find a defendant not guilty even though the facts show he disobeyed the law, if the jury thinks that the law is invalid or unjust? And if a series of such verdicts shows that people think that a particular law is not just, that law could be repealed? Isn't this what happened to the 18th amendment to our Constitution in the 1930s?

Isn't this called 'jury nullification"? And isn't it a de facto power of the jury? And don't judges and attorneys fail to mention this power when the jury is being given its instructions? And hasn't this power been passed down in Common Law to us in a straight line from the Magna Carta, which was created in the 13th century?

And don't judges and attorneys simply HATE the fact that it does exist?

Sue