The law requires that the prosecution prove their case and by Guy's own admission they didn't. In so many words he called for the jurors to stand the concept of jury nullification on its head. Jury nullification is when a jury finds that a person broke the law but that justice requires a not guilty verdict. (Unfortunately, judges don't inform jurors that they can judge the law as well as the facts of a case in order to acquit.
Visit the Fully Informed Jury Association
website for more information on this.) Guy asked the jury to disregard
the facts and the law and to convict a man whose guilt wasn't proved.
This is the most unnoticed aspect, and one of the scariest, of a trial
fraught with terrifying aspects. Kudos to the jury for not implementing
this kind of tyranny in the courtroom.
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