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The right of trial by jury shall be preserved.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 7.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 7.

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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 6.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 6.

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It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Twelve Men." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen, 1909.

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When the peremptory challenges were all exhausted, a jury of twelve men was impaneled—a jury who swore they had neither heard, read, talked about nor expressed an opinion concerning a murder which the very cattle in the corrals, the Indians in the sage-brush and the stones in the streets were cognizant of!

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872, ch. 48.

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Twain, Mark. Roughing It. Signet, 2008, ch. 48.

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What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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