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27 May 1808 8
- The case is - that under in this state of things it is
in the power of any single individual in the station
of Juryman to command a verdict, and there to the
conviction of all harbour a false one, there by the
voluntary perjury of one, forcing eleven others to perjure
themselves. producing the involuntary perjury
How then is a receipt, nor and that one unobvious one
by which any more purity
who either already proffesses or even continues manages so as to gain
a single individual to seek to prepare a single individual out of twelve jurymen,
may command the verdict. To its other
this function inessential of the institution adds therefore most of being
an incentive to , and that of the most
powerful kind.
A story which current upon this occasion, and the
design of which when related has commonly been that
if recommending these factors to public favor in the character
of a security to the innocent Englishmens lives. an institution among
of the nation friendly and conducive to the ends of justice, may have
in this reason
true or false, serve the purpose of illustration.
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jeremy bentham |
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