The Role of the Jury in Defining Facts

Up until about 18 50, in new england, youve got a situation in which the jury says not only what the facts are, but what the law is. They're the fact finder. So they say, well, thtete, whether or not the car ran the red light. But once working class people started sitting on juries, was a big deal. And soand so that the role of the jury would seem to be a perhaps disciplining force when it came to writing laws.