Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure. — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
