Time: Wed Mar 12 06:58:10 1997
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 06:55:00 -0800
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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...
>
>------------------------
>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 
>-------------------------
>
>

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