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"Juror's challenge raises legal issue"

"Juror's challenge raises legal issue": This article appeared Sunday in The Boston Globe.

According to the article, "To a casual observer, the question in the Boston courtroom might merely have been the musing of a juror with some knowledge of American history. But US District Court Judge William G. Young said the note and others that followed represented something he had never seen in 30 years as a judge: a rogue juror challenging the legitimacy of a criminal law used to prosecute a defendant. Young was so alarmed by the actions of Thomas R. Eddlem, a 42-year-old technology coordinator at a Catholic high school and former John Birch Society official, that he recently wrote a 43-page memorandum plumbing the history of 'jury nullification' and how it threatens democracy."

You can access the opinion of U.S. District Judge William G. Young of the District of Massachusetts at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).