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Feds prosecuting active NY advocate of jury nullification

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's New York Times has this really interesting article about a really notable federal prosecution of a really interesting proponent of jury nullification.  The piece is headlined "Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment," and here are excerpts: [I]t was not his silence that landed Mr. Heicklen, a retired Penn State University chemistry professor, in court; it was what he had been doing outside the federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street. Since 2009, Mr. Heicklen has stood there and at courthouse entrances elsewhere and handed out pamphlets encouraging jurors to ignore the law if they disagree with it, and to render verdicts based on conscience. That concept, called jury nullification, is highly controversial, and courts are hostile to it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).