Prosecution for jury nullification

When discussing the limits of proper argument by lawyers in front of a jury I ask my students whether a lawyer should be disciplined for asking the jury to disregard the law. The approach to the discussion may change this year given a story published by the New York Times this week. In it, the NYT reports that prosecutors in New York have taken the unusual step of having a jury nullification advocate indicted on a charge that distributing of pamphlets informing jurors of their right to disregard the law at the courthouse entrance violates a law against jury tampering.

Go here for the story in the New York Times and here for the story in the Wall Street Journal law blog.