Time: Wed Mar 12 06:58:10 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA04727; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 06:28:49 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 06:55:00 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: MTK: quotes for Kriho letters (fwd) <snip> >In case anyone is interested in including some good quotes from our >founding fathers on the rights of juries... > >------------------------ >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 >------------------------ >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 >------------------------- >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 >------------------------- >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 >------------------------- > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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