John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German-American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American ...
It is what actually happened in the 1735 trial of newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. In that historic case, Zenger was ...
The roots of jury nullification stretch deep into our soil. In 1735, John Peter Zenger’s jury defied a colonial tyrant, acquitting him of seditious libel for daring to print the truth — a ...