Dear John,
For a few days now, I've had a tab open in my web browser so I can just refresh my web search every hour or so. The search term? "Breonna Taylor grand jury".
Tension is intense across the country as we await an announcement from the Louisville grand jury tasked with deciding whether or not to criminally indict any of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Last night I received a question from someone about those grand jurors' voting options and the language they were hearing with respect to those options. The writer asked:
I thought that jurors have the right to decide questions of law generally, but everything I keep seeing pertains to nullification to acquit. If jurors, as a matter of conscience, feel that the law is unjust, can't they vote to indict?
Good question.
This seemed like the sort of thing other people may be wondering. Instead of sending him back an individual email, I decided this would be a good opportunity to kick off a new series of FIJA articles I'm calling FIJA Q&A.
