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For my independent study project, I read an essay by Paul Butler, called Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System.  

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Independent Study Analytical Review For my independent study project, I read an essay by Paul Butler, called Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System. This essay was published in the Yale Law Review (Number 3), in 1988. After I read the essay, I did some research to try and find credible sources that would discuss this topic further. * It should be noted that I retrieved sources from the same years in which this article was developed and released (1987-1995) intentionally as to not skew the information collected based on time. How these views differ from current views will be discussed at the end of my paper. It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial,...

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