Candice Jackson and I have long argued that jury nullification still has a role in the pursuit of justice, and that it what some of the pundits are saying in the wake of the Scrushy verdict. But it gets even better: A corporate law specialist who had followed the trial was stunned. “There was a mass of evidence against him. I certainly expected the jury to convict. I thought the prosecution could get a fair hearing in Birmingham, but that appears not to be the case,” said Larry Soderquist, director of the Corporate and Securities Law Institute at Vanderbilt University. … Continue reading Let’s Hear it for Jury Nullification!