Nullification

Episode aired Nov 5, 1997
TV-14
46m

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An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government.An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government.An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government.

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Trivia
The defendants argue that the court's US flag has fringes, thereby making it a military tribunal. This is not a mistake against the show. There are anti-government groups, called Sovereign Citizens, who falsely believe such a defense. They also state any courts in the US are either military operated, or that the only courts are US Martitime or Admiralty courts. Both of which they claim the government has no jurisdiction over them.

While the use of fringes on US flags is a military tradition going back to as early as 1835, it wasn't made official until 1895 for flags representing US Army regiments. Case law has stated that fringes on any US flags, including those seen in courthouses, are purely decorative. The use, or absence, of fringes does not change the flag's purpose, nor does it change the type of court in which they reside.

Goofs
While looking at the disassembled handgun, the firearm technician and Detective Curtis state that the weapon's slide has been "filed down", making the gun fully automatic. While a semi-automatic firearm can be converted to fully automatic with some difficulty by modifying a number of internal parts, filing down the slide isn't one of them. While modifying the sear or other internal parts may be required to go full auto, modification of the slide is not.

Quotes
Jack McCoy: This country began as an experiment in freedom. The foundation of that freedom is equality before the law. Everyone, whoever they are, whatever they may believe, must be equally accountable. Mr. Christie hopes you will ignore the evidence and nullify. A power, he says, derives from a higher law. I agree that such a higher law exists. And each of you, as members of the jury, bound yourselves to it when you swore, on your conscience, before God and as a citizen, that you would decide this case on the facts. You are asked to judge one thing, were the defendants, whatever their reasons, whatever their beliefs, part of a criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery and murder? These guys did a great job of memorization; too bad they didn't lean from it. We all remember that phrase from the Declaration of Independence about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the unalienable rights of everyone. Notice that "life" comes first. You can forget everything else about this case, if you remember one thing: these defendants, these conspirators, targeted an ordinary citizen, someone just like yourselves, a guy with a job and in the private sector, with bills to pay and a family to take care of, and they took his life. They *took his life*! If it's okay for them to shoot him, it's okay for them to shoot anyone, including any one of you. Without the law, there can be no freedom, and without justice, there can be no law.