To: Twotone
Actually (said the Prosecutor), juries have always been able to do this ... they just didn’t know it.
To: RIghtwardHo
...juries have always been able to do this ... they just didn’t know it.Whoomp! There it is.
9 posted on
07/03/2012 8:26:04 AM PDT by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: RIghtwardHo
juries have always been able to do this Exactly. Very old principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence of particular relevance to US history. ( See Bushell) The right of Trial by Jury was specifically included in the Constitution because the Jury was the last bastion for the citizen against a tyranical government.
10 posted on
07/03/2012 9:45:39 AM PDT by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
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