March 28, 2008 10:36AM # Jury Nullification, David Simon, and the Texas Prosecutor By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) --- SHARE David Simon has done it again. First, he created the best show on television, *[The Wire](https://www.cato.org/2006/12/11/the-wire/)*. Then, he and his co-writers wrote a passionate critique of the drug war in *[Time](http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1719872,00.html)* magazine, urging jurors to vote their conscience in certain cases. That article has, in turn, sparked a debate over at the [Defending People](http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/03/guest-post-jury-nullification-a-prosecutors-view.html) blog. A Texas prosecutor started the debate with an anonymous post against jury nullification. The prosecutor went so far as to say that anyone *advocating* jury nullification could be prosecuted in Texas. David Simon just cheerfully joined the fracas. Previous coverage [here](https://www.cato.org/2008/03/06/the-war-on-the-drug-war/). Cato co-published the most comprehensive book on this subject, *[Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine](http://www.amazon.com/Jury-Nullification-Evolution-Clay-Conrad/dp/0890897026/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206712669&sr=1-3)* by Clay Conrad. For shorter works, go [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4821), [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6316), and [here](http://instapundit.com/lawrev/conradrv.htm). ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).