A legal expert spoke "the name that shall not be spoken."
Juries have a secret power that attorneys aren't supposed to talk about, according to MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos.
Cevallos on Wednesday appeared on the news network to discuss the high-profile criminal trial against Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
Noting that most of the elements of the criminal charges involved in the case have been met, Cevallos raised the possibility that the jury could still acquit the music mogul, just because they think it's right.
"A lot of people have talked about, whether they be lawyers or regular folks, that this doesn't feel like a case that belongs in federal court. So there's always an option," Cevallos said. "And this among lawyers... is the name that shall not be spoken, is jury nullification. Juries are never told this, but they do technically have the power to go in there and say, look, this crime, everything he did meets all the elements of this crime. But we have the unreviewable power to simply say we're going to acquit him anyway because we feel like it's the right thing to do."
The expert added that "there would be no comebacks, there's no appeal, and we lawyers are not even supposed to talk about this."
"So I'm going to be checking my email from the disciplinary board. But I'm just saying that it's something that exists out there in the ether," he then added.
