Juries as a Bulwark Against Oppression

Mike Fox

Imagine at 22, you were driving recklessly with a group of friends when a drunk driver crossed the center line and hit you head-on, killing several of your passengers. If you think the grief from feeling responsible for the death of your friends would be unfathomable, imagine the state charged you with causing your friends’ deaths, confining you to an approximately 70-square-foot cage for over three decades.

In 2022, Floridian Devin Perkins was driving 100 mph in a posted...