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• If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.
  -- Joseph C. Goulde...
• In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dolla
  he right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law....
• The founding fathers tried to set up a judicial system where the accused received a fair trial, not a system to insure an acquittal on technicalities.
• Briefcase: a trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.
• briefcase, n: A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.
• You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life!
  It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions....
• Jasper: Why bother voting? He's guilty. Flanders: Well, we might as well make it official.
  Homer: What does "sequestered" mean? Skinner: If the jury is deadlocked they're put up in a hotel together so they can't communicate with the outside world....