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• In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact, except that the Court may pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction.
  -- Article XV, section 5, Constitution of Maryland....
• In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial
  by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusatio...
• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
  -- Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Supreme Court Justice, 1804...
• No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime
  unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public dange...
• 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....
• But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms.
  An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law...
• There was once a professor of law who said to his stude
  When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge....
• hardcore signature virus: "As a juror in a Trial by Jury, you have the right, power and duty to acquit the defendant if you judge the law itself to be unjust.
  -- John McPherson, mcpherso@macvax.ucsd.edu...
• One useless man can be called a disgrace. Two really useless men can be called a law firm.
  When you get more than these together, you have all the essential ingredients for a committee....