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Edmund Burke has said that nothing on earth so nearly approached the power of the Almighty as the power put into the hands of a juryman.

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Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co.

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Any book, therefore, which so effectively as Mr. Wellman's awakens a citizen to his duties as a juryman, is important and destined to remain important.

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Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses.

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A juryman asked him if he ever heard the deceased complain of the duke.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019

In “The Rape of the Lock,” first published in 1712, Alexander Pope wrote this chilling couplet: The hungry judges soon the ­sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2012

The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans.

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Grey as the dawn in which they appeared, the jurymen reported a deadlock.

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First the High Bailiff hears his case, then the Deemster and six jurymen, and, thirdly, if he has been committed for trial, he is brought before the Governor and the Deemsters.

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