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Jan. 1, 2010

Reel Law

"These twelve people are asked to judge another human being. ... And in their judgment, they must become of one mind-unanimous. It's one of the miracles of man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries."

?Attorney Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell, left) speaking with his co-counsel (James Stewart) in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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