Juries Befooled and Justice Degraded.
(BY TKLEUKAriI — OWN COBKEHPOSUKST.)
WEi.LiNiiTo.v, this day. Bekokk discharging tho Common Jury this morning Judge Richmond enid : Gentlemen, beforo discharging you, I have a word to say to you. I say it, you will quite understand, deliberately - in sorrow, not in anger. It i^ my deliberate opinion that in the criminal sittings you liavo bucn jut-t attending, tho result has been that tho juries have beon mado fools of, that tho Court baa been degraded— deeply degraded-and that crime has been encouraged. Guntlemon, I discharge you." His Honor npoko emphatically, and tt'iib evident feeling.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 243, 15 October 1886, Page 2
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