Mr Justice Rooney told the jury that their verdict must be based on the evidence they have heard at the inquest and nothing else.

To say that the right to trial by jury was of paramount importance to America's founding generation would be putting it mildly. Among the "repeated Injuries and Usurpations" charged against King George III in the Declaration of Independence, for example, is the fact that the crown "depriv [ed] us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury."

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - You've probably heard of a grand jury in the news or on TV crime shows but what exactly is a grand jury? And how is it different than a regular trial jury? The simplest explanation is that a grand jury decides whether probable ...