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And what is the desired outcome of a boycott? For a boycott to be successful, you have to be able to do a few things:
1) Have a clearly defined outcome that the targeted parties can affect.
2) Have a readily identifiable way of targeting those parties.
3) Have an effective means of arranging the boycott.
In this case, the third one is easy, while the I am not sure what the other two would accomplish. Are you calling for a boycott as punishment? That accomplishes little. A boycott will not impact the jury (nor should it).
Examples of effective boycotts have all of these elements. When the NAACP targeted South Carolina, they had a clear outcome (get rid of the Confederate Flag on the Statehouse) that the targeted parties (state legislators and governor) could achieve, a way to target those people (tourist and conference boycotts that would impact tax revenue in a dramatic way -- the NCAA was going to move a regional) and parties willing to act (see NCAA and other major organizations that were relocating conferences).
The same thing with the recent effort in Austin to target the construction companies building a planned parenthood building. Though I disagreed with the outcome, that was a prime example of effective outcome and target identification as well as finding people with a willingness to act.
Again, what is the desired outcome here? Find Janklow guilty? I certainly hope he is found guilty, but I don't see how a boycott impacts that. If he is found not guilty, there is little the state could do to punish him legally. The only hope then is a lawsuit which, again, a boycott would not impact. The only other desired outcome then is to not re-elect him. You could have some argument for that. Otherwise, the boycott is simply punitive to the people of South Dakota for being represented by a jury pool that let's him off (if that is the outcome).