Todd McMurtry: Palin v. NYT illustrates need for judges to allow juries to make clean decisions

Todd McMurtry, attorney and author of “Dismissed: How Media Agendas and Judicial Bias Conspire to Undermine Justice,” explains how former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation case against The New York Times demonstrates the need for judges to respect juries' ability to make independent decisions. “Judges come into cases and they have a particular perspective. It could be that they’re progressive, it could be that they’re liberal, it could be that they’re conservative. And the jury is the best way to allow a good, clean decision to be made because most often a jury’s going to be made up of 12 people from diverse backgrounds who won’t necessarily have a political bias,” he explains.