jury nullification
C1CEFR level
62/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A jury's acquittal against the evidence because it rejects the law or its application.
Defense counsel cannot openly argue for jury nullification, but the theme hummed under every closing line.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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