Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System

@article{Butler1995RaciallyBJ,
  title={Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System},
  author={Paul D. Butler},
  journal={Yale Law Journal},
  year={1995},
  volume={105},
  pages={677}
}
  • P. Butler
  • Published 1 December 1995
  • Philosophy, Law
  • Yale Law Journal
[T]he time that we're living in now... is not an era where one who is oppressed is looking toward the oppressor to give him some system or form of logic or reason. What is logical to the oppressor isn't logical to the oppressed. And what is reason to the oppressor isn't reason to the oppressed. The black people in this country are beginning to realize that what sounds reasonable to those who exploit us doesn't sound reasonable to us. There just has to be a new system of reason and logic devised… 
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