Grand jurors in the District of Columbia thrice refuse to indict a defendant for felony assault of a federal officer. And it happened again and again. Last week, the U.S. Attorney for the District of ...
Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line ...
A federal grand jury’s recent refusal to return an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during the Trump Administration’s takeover of Washington, D.C., does more than spawn ...
Sorry, Jon Stewart, You Can Believe That the Democrats Caved on the Shutdown How Soon Is Now for Jack Schlossberg? No, We’re Not Going to Use Taxpayer Money to ...
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DC’s jury nullification problem
By itself, a Washington, D.C., jury’s acquittal of a 37-year-old man of assault for throwing a sandwich at a Customs and ...
People sometimes ask me whether I see any guardrails between President Trump and the dictatorship he has foreshadowed. With a docile Supreme Court and a cowering Congress, it is hard to see any. At a ...
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Jury Nullification: An Expression of Discontent with Government
Jurors play a prominent role in the criminal justice system. Although few cases go to trial — statistically as few as four ...
While accused assassin Luigi Mangione has thousands of supporters online and attracts demonstrators outside of his court appearances, their push for "jury nullification" in his pending cases may be a ...
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