On the record
If, in addition to this, the court be uniformly on the side of justice, it is not a reasonable supposition that a succession of juries should disagree about it.
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Lysander Spooner
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This statement posits that consistent court support for justice should lead to agreement among juries.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.