How has the number 12 been associated with trial by jury?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gajadhar, 850 N.Y.S.2d 377, 880 N.E.2d 863, 9 N.Y.3d 438 (N.Y. 2007):
The number 12 has long been associated with trial by jury but no one knows why or when the common law settled on that figure (see e.g. People v. Cosmo, 205 N.Y. 91, 96, 98 N.E. 408 [1912] ["(w)hen or how that number acquired its historic sacredness no one can tell, for the origin of the institution itself has been lost in the
[850 N.Y.S.2d 442]
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