Were the Pharisees correct: “no prophet arises out of Galilee” (Jn. 7:52)?

In the Gospel of John, the following exchange takes place between the Pharisees and Nicodemus: John 7:50-51: "Nicodemus (he who came to [Christ] before, being one of them) said to them, 51’Our Law does not judge a man unless it first…