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| 20 | 66 | "If that were the View more quotes about case">case a single madman or fool, a simpleton, a partisan or malcontent, might nullify or vitiate an entire trial". |
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| 20 | 63 | "The judge would then not know how each voted". |
| 20 | 64 | "The verdict need not be unanimous?" asked Cabot. |
| 20 | 65 | "Certainly not," said Peisistratus. |
| 20 | 66 | "If that were the case a single madman or fool, a simpleton, a partisan or malcontent, might nullify or vitiate an entire trial". |
| 20 | 67 | "Is a simple majority required?" asked Cabot. |
| 20 | 68 | "No," said Peisistratus, "innocence or guilt must be clear, so a clear, significant majority is required, and in a trial such as this, involving charges of high treason, guilt must be exceedingly clear, this requiring that nine out of every ten jurors draw the knife". |
| 20 | 69 | "If more than one out of ten do not unsheathe their blades?" "Then the defendant is acquitted," said Peisistratus. |