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"...Unless the jury can exercise its community conscience role, our judicial system will have become so inflexible that the effect may well be a progressive radicalization of protest into channels that will threaten the very continuance of the system itself. To put it another way the jury is...the safety valve that must exist if this society is to be able to accommodate itself it its own internal stresses and strains... if the community is to sit in the jury box, its decision cannot be legally limited to a conscience-less application of fact to law." William Kunstler, quoted in Franklin M. Nugent, Jury Power: Secret Weapon Against Bad Law, revised from Youth Connection, 1988.
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