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Jury Nullification: Good or Bad?

by Mark Pulliam | January 31, 2018 | Criminal Law

Should jurors be encouraged (or even allowed) to ignore the controlling law in a particular case to reach the result they believe is “fair” or “just”? This is a surprisingly controversial topic, which I explore in this post for Law and Liberty.

Thanks to Instapundit (here), Reason (here and here), and The Originalism Blog (here). This essay is an updated version of an older piece I wrote for The Freeman (here).