Video Analysis: Trial By Jury

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Trial by Jury Something I learned from the film Trial by Jury that I had not learned elsewhere was when trial by juries became the main method to resolve legal disputes. In the 15th century this method became the dominant one and shortly thereafter it was brought to the New World and became a part of the law in the early United States (Trial by Jury, 1999). I knew the right to a jury was included in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but I also did not know it was not a right in England before it was brought to the New World. This video honestly made me feel grateful. I am incredibly grateful, as I am sure many others are as well, that we in the United States no longer practice trial by ordeals. I would venture to say a lot of the methods