Jury Size in the United States
Jury Size
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled JURY SIZETraditionally, in the United States, a criminal trial jury-the petit jury-has been composed of twelve persons. Early Supreme Court opinions assumed that in federal criminal cases juries of that size were required by the Constitution. In patton v. united states (1930) the Court ruled that
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