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This Day in Legal History: The Acquittal of John Peter Zenger
On August 4, 1735, a New York jury acquitted printer John Peter Zenger of seditious libel—a verdict that planted one of the earliest seeds of freedom of the press in America. Zenger published the New York Weekly Journal, which had spent a year printing scathing criticism of the colonial governor, William Cosby. For that, Zenger was jailed for nearly ten months and put on trial for libeling the governor.
Here’s what made the case so important. Under the English common law of the time, truth was no defense to a charge of seditious…
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