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Jury Nullification With Chinese Characteristics

Stan Abrams of the always excellent China Hearsay blog just posted on the decision of a Guangzhou court to dramatically reduce a previous verdict of life imprisonment to a five-year jail term for a person convicted of stealing money from a bank by taking... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Tue, Apr 08 2008

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