jury tampering

Free speech: Retired professor held for distributing pamphlets to prospective jurors

Federal prosecutors have indicted a former chemistry professor for jury tampering in distributing pamphlets to prospective jurors urging them to ignore law if they disagree with it and base their verdicts on conscience. Writing in The New York Times, Benjamin Weiser quotes Christopher T. Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, about the pamphleteering, “This is classic political advocacy. Unless the government can show that he’s singling out jurors to influence a

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