George Washington University
http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=1723
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Butler, a former federal anticorruption prosecutor, specialized in white collar criminal defense and civil litigation in private law practice and then became a federal anticorruption prosecutor. Among other subjects, he is an expert on race and racism in U.S. law, civil rights, jury ification. On the last subject, he has written that when a jury acquits a defendant it believes is guilty, the jury “votes its conscience” and ignores the facts and/or the judge's instructions.