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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