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Jury Nullification Sep. 04, 2025

Susan Estrich

Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it's called when juries — or, in this case, grand ... Read More

We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors From Death Penalty Cases Apr. 17, 2023

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Leo Jones, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Florida jury in 1982 fo... Read More

For Defendants Who Cross Paths with Kim Gardner, It's Hurry Up and Wait for Trial Apr. 14, 2023

Daily Editorials

Multiple cases have come to public attention in St. Louis where criminal suspects have had to wait n... Read More

A Reason to Protest Jul. 01, 2020

John Stossel

Protesters say America's criminal justice system is unfair. It is. Courts are so jammed that innocen... Read More

Policies That Make the Poor Poorer Jun. 15, 2019

Diane Dimond

See if you can find the logic in this. A local government issues traffic fines to residents for infr... Read More

What Happened to Bill Barr? Jun. 03, 2019

Susan Estrich

I knew him back when we were both law clerks fresh out of school — he for one of the most cons... Read More

Horrible Harvey Jun. 01, 2019

Diane Dimond

How is it that someone accused of dozens of criminal acts can throw millions of dollars at a problem... Read More

More Presidential Pardons for People, Please Nov. 24, 2018

Diane Dimond

Hey, if turkeys Peas and Carrots can get a presidential pardon, how about the thousands of Americans... Read More

The Death Penalty, Take Two Aug. 29, 2011

Susan Estrich

When he was district attorney of Los Angeles more than a decade ago, Gil Garcetti was for the death ... Read More