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<p>The other is — "the rule which (says he) requires that <lb/>juries be unanimous in their verdicts. . To expect (<gap/> <lb/>he) that <unclear> | <p>The other is — "the rule which (says he) requires that <lb/>juries be unanimous in their verdicts. . To expect (<gap/> <lb/>he) that <unclear>treated</unclear> men, taken by lot out of a promiscuous <lb/>multitude should agree <del>in their opinion</del> he should have <lb/>said should ever partly agree in their opinion upon points <lb/>confessedly dubious, and upon which oftentimes the wisest <lb/>judgments might be held in suspense; or to suppose that <lb/>any real unanimity, or change of opinion in the dissenting <lb/>jurist, could be procured by confusing them until <lb/>they all consented to the same verdict; bespeaks more of <lb/>the <gap/> of a barbarous age, than of the policy which <lb/>could dictate (say rather which ought to have directed) <lb/>such an institution as that of juries. <del>They</del> <lb/> | ||
Feb 7 1809
The other is — "the rule which (says he) requires that
juries be unanimous in their verdicts. . To expect (
he) that treated men, taken by lot out of a promiscuous
multitude should agree in their opinion he should have
said should ever partly agree in their opinion upon points
confessedly dubious, and upon which oftentimes the wisest
judgments might be held in suspense; or to suppose that
any real unanimity, or change of opinion in the dissenting
jurist, could be procured by confusing them until
they all consented to the same verdict; bespeaks more of
the of a barbarous age, than of the policy which
could dictate (say rather which ought to have directed)
such an institution as that of juries. They
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