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Olympia Snowe's announcement that she will vote to acquit President Clinton on both impeachment articles means there's a very good chance the perjury charge won't even get a simple majority, and some chance that the obstruction charge won't either.
Could scans showing diminished impulse control—a function controlled by several regions of the brain, including the striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—be used to support more lenient sentencing, or even acquit a defendant, because he couldn't control his violent impulses?
But the Steele jury--unlike the jury in the recent trial of Susan McDougal, with which Steele's trial is often twinned--did not acquit her of any of the four charges against her.
Indeed, under our present rule a jury is told that if it believes that a defendant "probably" did it, it must acquit him, because "probably" is not enough.
Some critical race theorists argue that black jurors should acquit guilty black defendants in protest of the unjust system.