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Tried by a Jury of Your Peers

Posted by brestonlaw on October 22nd, 2010 under 7th amendment, jury trial, legal process  •  No Comments

We hear the phrase all the time in the news and on legal dramas. The defendant will ‘be tried by a jury of his peers’. Entire movies have been built around the phrase - some suggesting it to be impossible (consider the gripping storyline in A Time to Kill in which Samuel L. Jackson is [...]