Time: Wed Mar 12 06:58:10 1997
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: MTK: quotes for Kriho letters (fwd)
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>In case anyone is interested in including some good quotes from our
>founding fathers on the rights of juries...
>
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>It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict
>according to his own best understanding, judgement
>and conscience, though in direct opposition to the
>instruction of the court.
> --John Adams, 1771
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>I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man
>by which a government can be held to the principles of its
>constitution.
> --Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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>Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction...
>if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty
>they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong.
> -- Alexander Hamilton, 1804
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>If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states, then the
>juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a
>government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once
>was the citizen's safeguard of liberty.
> --Justice Theophilus Parsons, 1788
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>
>
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