The concept of jury nullification has gone viral on social media amid Luigi Mangione’s arrest for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This legal loophole has the potential to allow the ...

Increasing public sympathy for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could pose the possibility of jury nullification despite the overwhelming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the law, technology and the free flow of information. Jury nullification is where a jury renders a "not guilty" ...

Jury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly ...

A federal jury has acquitted Los Angeles tow truck driver Bobby Nuñez of theft of government property after prosecutors ...

Jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal trial returns a not guilty verdict despite clear evidence that the ...

A petition for a writ of mandamus currently pending before the Second Circuit has reignited an ancient debate over jury nullification—specifically, whether a jury may ever be informed of its power to ...

In my Monday column “Is jury nullification a cause to go to jail for? Yes” I wrote that I thought I was going get arrested at the Ocean County Courthouse that day. Which is why I had a column on ...

Few topics provoke as much consternation among lawyers and law students as jury nullification. It's a legal problem child—serving as a vital check on government power while simultaneously undermining ...

In theory, yes. But not in the world we actually live in, where law enforcement is already rife with numerous discretionary decisions made unavoidable by the fact that we have far too many laws. In a ...