Charles Sumner: “The right to be a juror is identical in character with the right to be…”

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The right to be a juror is identical in character with the right to be a witness.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the rights to be a juror and a witness are fundamentally the same, reinforcing the importance of both.

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Charles Sumner: “The right to be a juror is identical in character with the right to be a witness.”