Cockburn on slavery

Paul Henry Rosenberg rad at gte.net
Tue Nov 10 10:27:41 PST 1998


Doug Henwood forwarded Alexander Cockburn saying:


> According to Lehman, an ardent promoter of jury nullification, as are we,
> "the tantalizing question is: Would southern juries have followed the
> Massachusetts pattern had they been true juries - that is not stacked,
> fully informed of the evidence and their powers, and not judicially
> dominated. There is evidence this was happening in some states".

The tantalizing question is, would pigs have flown if they had wings?

-- Paul Rosenberg Reason and Democracy rad at gte.net

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