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Guest Post: Jury Nullification — A Prosecutor’s View

Mark Bennett | March 26, 2008

The following was sent to me by a prosecutor who wishes to remain anonymous. (No, it’s not AHCL.) I disagree with him — I think he’s missing at least one essential point (that jury nullification is the law, so that a nullifying verdict is a verdict “according to the law”) — but he’s not entirely [...]