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 ...

The GOP’s jury nullification is threatening the rule of law — and public safety — in the United States. And the Trump administration’s attempts to protect Trevor Kirk, a former Los Angeles County ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...