Prof. Cribari Quoted in Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald

“Each trial is about the government’s power to punish,” Professor Stephen Cribari said in an article in the Grand Forks Herald, regarding U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson's recent overturning of a jury verdict. The judge noted that the jury “could have only convicted [the defendant], not on the evidence against him, but because he was a black man with a prior drug trafficking conviction associating with a known drug trafficker” from the Minneapolis area. Cribari commented: “That’s a very important thing the judge did. That safeguards the quality of liberty in North Dakota.”