October 26, 2014

Word: Juries

JURY: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. - HL Mencken

"It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, to find the verdict according to his own understanding, judgement, and conscience, through in direct opposition to the direction of the court." -- John Adams, 1771


I consider the trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. - Thomas Jefferson.

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