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The Genius of the Jury System

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December 15, 2009

"The peculiar genius of the jury system is its reliance on the common sense and common experience of ordinary men and women to determine definitively much that cannot be known absolutely." Miller v. National Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 578 F.2d 125 (5th.1978).

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