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jury
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jury,
n a certain number of citizens selected according to law and sworn to inquire of certain matters of fact and to declare the truth on evidence submitted to them.


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Countless men and women have died over the course of this country's history protecting the basic, inalienable rights - among them the right to a fair trial with a jury of one's peers.
Is it really a jury of one's peers when the 20 percent of Americans who disapprove of the death penalty are forbidden from participating?
In short, either we have faith in the system of a jury of one's peers or we don't.
 
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