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• briefcase, n: A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.
• 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....
• Where's the party?!
• Jury Gets Drunk Driving Case Here -- Headline
• There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial
  both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial....