Jury trial

Amendment 6 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 accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment 7 In suits at common law, where the value of controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment 8 Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment 9 The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them by a mock Trial from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Essays on Things by William Lyon Phelps.

Trial by Jury.

When I was an undergraduate at Yale, we were fortunate in having as one of our professors Edward John Phelps, who was unexpectedly appointed minister to England by Grover Cleveland, and who, after making a fine impression at the Court of St. James, do you know why it is called that? Returned to his professorship.

He was fond of making general statements, not only concerned with his specialty, the law, but on anything that rose to the surface of his mind, so that to take his course was in itself a liberal education.

I well remember his beginning one lecture by saying emphatically, quote, Trial by jury is a good thing which has outlived its usefulness, end quote.

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If it was true then, it is certainly true now.

They just want to get one over on you.

because they want something that's obscure and that they're not making explicit in this case it's like what are they getting out of this what do they think they're doing like what do they think they're achieving most of the time I can get in the heads of people even if they're wrong and bad and evil or whatever I can go okay I get what's motivating him in this case I'm like no I think these people are genuine which is maybe even scarier than if they just had some ulterior motive but Like, are we going to have jury trials into the future? Like, that's my question.

Are we is this becoming so prevalent that we're not going to be able to have a society that functions like it used to?

Well, yeah, that's the problem.

Wow.

What is this jury system about? It's exactly what happens, right? That's what you're supposed to do.

And I'm not, remember, I have had the lone jurors back in this thing.

That's the jury system.

Whether you like it or you don't, that's the system.

But, well, like, there were eight people and they took a vote every day.

Ashley Merchant, after you.

Thank you, sir.