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of sympathy to the Defendant: 2 antipathy against the
character manifested by the prosecutor: 3 sympathy or
antipathy towards either on some party account:
4 patriotism showing itself in the shape of love of
liberty, and hatred of bad laws, or such as present
themselves in that character.

That the prevalence of these principles of
false decision is no vain surmize, is well enough
known to all in whose way it has ever lain to
These principles are and habitual
source of false decision on the part of English
Juries attend to the conduct of English Juries.

The following is a specimen of the occasions
on which their influence is particularly apt to
manifest itself.

1 Capital cases and cases next to capital. Read
the Old Bailey trials, you will not find one
person out of five that comes there of whose guilt
you can entertain a particular particle of doubt:
you will not find one out of two convicted. (a)

Tr. gs. 1.20

2. Revenue causes. Ask any professional man who
is used to the practice in the Exchequer, what chance
the Crown has with as a case which in a cause between
A x B would be deemed a sure one. He must be
sanguine indeed if he does not look upon the
chances against him as two or three to one. I speak with
great reserve: all accounts I ever the notions I have heard have gone much
farther. If th Jurymen were added textmost commonly<add> out of this in</add> in partnership with the
smugglers, the assurance of injustice could not even be stronger.

Identifier: | JB/035/033/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14-16
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	033	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l munn
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10626
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