Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
11-2-2014
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Abstract
The following article on the Trayvon Martin trial suggests that together doctrinal and critical analysis can often be more powerful than either alone Written for a symposium issue on Critical Latino LatCrit scholarship the article posits that jury nullification can operate to reduce the impact of a defense in which the jury does not really believe such as self defense or standyourground And in the Martin case felony murder coupled with felony stalking was an avenue that the Florida prosecutor left unexplored
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
The Trayvon Martin Trial - Two Comments and an Observation,
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/417