(1) Judge William G Young, Vanishing Trials, Vanishing Juries, Vanishing Constitution. Suffolk University Law Review, 40: 67 (2006)
suffolklawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Young_Article_FINAL.pdf
Suffolk University is in Boston, which has a law school.
(2) "I consider trial by jury the greatest anchor ever yet devised by humankind for holding a government to the principles of its constitution." Thomas Jefferson, 1792
(3) Judge William G Young, In Celebration of the American Jury Trial. Massachusetts Bar Association, Oct 2, 2014
www.massbar.org/media/1555636/in ... 0jury%2520trial.pdf
("Ninety percent of the jury trials on the planet take place in the United States of America. No country uses juries, the direct democracy of the people, more than we do")
There is no need to read the rest of (3). |