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> It's really hard to design a system of checks and balances where you tell juries about nullification but somehow stop the bad outcomes I described above. The best anyone has been able to come up with is to not tell the jury about it.

Given that the internet exists, how do you propose to keep jurors ignorant of it?

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Even without the internet, if an idea exists then knowledge of it will spread unless it's kept a strict secret. Further, protecting a system by promoting ignorance of said system protects neither the system nor the people it's designed to serve. Rather it endangers everyone who is beholden to it as the system goes further and further off the rails to justify increasingly erratic behavior. Classic spirit of the law vs. letter of the law debate.

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