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 ...

America at 250: The New Issue of NR Is Out Audio By Carbonatix Back at the Libby trial. This morning, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has accused the Libby defense of employing a strategy of jury ...

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CRIMINAL LAW Grand Jury Nullification In describing the proper role of the grand jury, at least one very important question is left unanswered: If probable cause exists, yet the grand jury still does ...

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 ...

This week in The Daily Beast, a pair of former prosecutors wrote this about the Manafort case - the trial inevitably will be seen as a referendum on the Mueller investigation as a whole. Elie Honig is ...

Eric Patrick Brandt and Mark Iannicelli were handing out pamphlets outside a Denver courthouse in July 2015. They wanted to inform the public about jury nullification — that is, the power of jurors to ...

The New York Times reported today that federal prosecutors failed to secure a grand jury indictment against Sean Dunn, the Washington, D.C., man who was arrested earlier this month after he hurled a ...

According to the law, Robert Morris was a criminal. The second Black lawyer in the history of the United States, Morris was among a group of abolitionists who, in 1851, stormed a Boston courtroom to ...