All Posts Tagged With: "jury nullification"
Jury Nullification: Right, Remedy, or Danger?
Last December a “mutiny” occurred in a Montana courtroom. At least that’s what a stunned county deputy attorney called it. One of 27 members of a jury pool spoke up to ask why taxpayer money was being wasted to prosecute a man accused of possessing 1/16th of an ounce of marijuana. When polled, a large [...]
25May2011 | Wendy McElroy | 8 comments | ContinuedJury Nullification: Remedy or Danger?
Jury nullification can occur for reasons good or ill, from ingrained justice or from inbred prejudice.
4Jan2011 | Wendy McElroy | 35 comments | ContinuedLiberating the Jury
Nathan Lapp is a dairy farmer and coordinator of the New York Fully Informed Jury Association in Cassadaga, New York. When disputes arise over who has the freedom to do what, fundamental principles of fairness, or “right reason,” as Roman philosopher Cicero phrased it, must come into play.[1] For this task, the founders recommended trial [...]
1Mar1998 | Nathan Lapp | 1 comment | ContinuedNullifying the Rule of Law
Mr. Pulliam is an attorney in private practice in San Diego. What do nineteenth-century anarchist Lysander Spooner,[1] the O. J. legal defense team, some elements of the militia movement,[2] the Los Angeles juries that failed to convict the Menendez brothers of murdering their parents and that acquitted the brutal assailants of Reginald Denny, and the [...]
1Mar1996 | Mark S. Pulliam | 2 comments | Continued-
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