JURY NULLIFICATION: A "Right," A "Power," or an Invitation to Anarchy?
The American Bar Association Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities is sponsoring a forum on Jury Nullification on Monday, March 31, 1997 at 9:30 am to Noon, at Georgetown University Law Center, Room 200, 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC.
C-SPAN has replied that it will cover the forum.
The discussion will be moderated by Prof. JAMES E. COLEMAN, JR., Duke University Law School.
Panelists include:
Senior U.S. Judge JACK B. WEINSTEIN, U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of New York (Brooklyn);
Assistant U.S. Attorney General ANDREW FOIS (Assistant AG for Legislative
Affairs; former U.S. prosecutor; former Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on
Crime, U.S. House of Representatives);
PAUL GRANT, Esq., Parker, Colorado, Attorney for LAURA KRIHO (a Colorado
juror who advocated jury nullfication during a drug prosecution);
LISA KEMLER, Esq., Alexandria, VA, Attorney for LORENA BOBBITT (a Virginia
woman acquitted of slicing off her husband's penis);
STEPHEN P. HALBROOK, Esq., Ph.D., Fairfax, VA, specialist on the Second
Amendment, (also argued this year in the U.S. Supreme Court against the
Brady Bill on behalf of Arizona and Montana sheriffs);
ANGELA JORDAN DAVIS, Professor, American University, Washington College
of Law (former Director, Public Defender Service, Washington DC); and
JEFFREY ROSEN, Professor, George Washington University Law School (author
of "One Angry Woman" in _The New Yorker_ Crime and Punishment
issue, Feb. 24, 1997).
Sponsored by the Criminal Justice Committee of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association. In Cooperation with The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
For more information, call the ABA section office at 202-662-1030.
NEWS MEDIA SHOULD CONTACT DOLORES BEASLEY, ABA PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 202-662-1092.
Continuing Legal Education Credit applied for.
Check with C-SPAN for broadcast times.
Eric E. Sterling
President, The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
1899 L Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036-3804
Tel. 202-835-9075 Fax 202-833-8561
The C-SPAN web page lists this video as
ID: 80075, length 2 hrs, 30 minutes.
Title: Jury Nullification.
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