Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, Volume 28Headquarters Office, 1905 - Bar associations |
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... Boston , to open a discussion of the question , " What can be done to improve the jury system ? " to be followed by an informal debate on the subject by those members who may be present . The President : The next business in order is ...
... Boston , to open a discussion of the question , " What can be done to improve the jury system ? " to be followed by an informal debate on the subject by those members who may be present . The President : The next business in order is ...
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... Boston , who will address us upon the subject of what can be done to improve the jury system . Harvey N. Shepard , of Massachusetts : Mr. President and gentlemen of the American Bar Asso- ciation It is , of course , rank presumption on ...
... Boston , who will address us upon the subject of what can be done to improve the jury system . Harvey N. Shepard , of Massachusetts : Mr. President and gentlemen of the American Bar Asso- ciation It is , of course , rank presumption on ...
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... Boston the foreman of the jury was one of the largest real estate owners and tax- payers in the city ; and , at the same time , in another session of the Superior Court , which is the trial court of our common- wealth , I was trying a ...
... Boston the foreman of the jury was one of the largest real estate owners and tax- payers in the city ; and , at the same time , in another session of the Superior Court , which is the trial court of our common- wealth , I was trying a ...
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... Boston is sufficient to dispose of the causes tried without a jury , it requires seven sessions of the court to dispose of the causes tried by jury , although in all these cases a jury must have been claimed . In one state , and I am ...
... Boston is sufficient to dispose of the causes tried without a jury , it requires seven sessions of the court to dispose of the causes tried by jury , although in all these cases a jury must have been claimed . In one state , and I am ...
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... Boston , who has sat in any of those cases . And here I must say I do not think our judges quite do their duty when under pressure they excuse men from Ward Eleven from doing what one of my Irish friends called " high service , " while ...
... Boston , who has sat in any of those cases . And here I must say I do not think our judges quite do their duty when under pressure they excuse men from Ward Eleven from doing what one of my Irish friends called " high service , " while ...
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