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Calling all New York criminal defense attorneys

January 19, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Freedom of Speech, Jury Nullification

Or even just one really good one. (And yes, for this post only, Scott Greenfield is not banned from commenting.) Julian Heicklen needs your help. Here is the indictment. If a criminal case can be a thing of beauty, this one is. The good professor is charged with jury tampering for “distribut[ing] pamphlets urging jury nullification, immediately in front of an entrance to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.” Here is one of the pamphlets Heicklen is in the habit of distributing, entitled “A Primer for Prospective Jurors” and produced by the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA). As a commenter on this post by Garry Reed observes: “What is funny is that the evidence against him will be FIJA pamphlets.”

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