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Juries Can Stop Trump, Too

It’s not just the Sandwich Guy trial. All across the country, juries are standing up to the Trump administration’s overreach.
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You remember the case of the sandwich man. He’s the 37-year-old former Department of Justice paralegal, Sean Dunn, who was ...
Laws are not meant to be broken but that doesn't mean they can't be bent or twisted a little bit to perfectly fit a given ...
The bill provides “a clarifying exception to the offenses of trespass,” spelling out that a corner-crosser “does not commit criminal trespass.” The measure also would immunize corner crossers who make ...
Opinion

DC’s jury nullification problem

A jury pool drawn almost entirely from one party cannot credibly deliver equal justice under law, and DC juries are failing to be impartial.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of a D.C. man charged with throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal agent in August during the early days of the law enforcement surge ...
Prosecutors are urging a judge to reject Harvey Weinstein’s claims that his June sexual assault conviction was marred by ...
Jury deliberations got underway on Monday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial and hit a snag almost as soon as they started. But, by the end of the day, jurors indicated they were ...
DICKINSON — A North Dakota judge has nearly halved the $660 million sum Greenpeace was ordered to pay the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March. A nine-person jury had found the ...