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The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.
John Henry Wigmore
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John Henry Wigmore
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: March 4
Died: 1943
Died: April 20
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