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 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 great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure. — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share
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 justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share
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
