From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Tue Mar 23 1999 - 05:06:59 MST
hal@rain.org wrote:
>Jury nullification was primarily used in the Old South to make sure that
>white defendants were acquitted of crimes against blacks (lynchings,
>beatings, robbery, etc.).
And elsewhere to prevent the return of fugitive slaves to their owners, and
to acquit drug-dealers during Prohibition, etc. It works both ways.
Mark
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