[Ads-l] "judged by 12"

[Wilson Gray]

> as my infantry brethren say, “It’s better to be judged by 12 than carried
> by 6.”

If that 's what infantrymen say, then the SOP for courts-martial has
undergone serious modification since my stint in the military.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:12 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1980  _The Sun_ (Baltimore) (June 22) B1: He reminds the men that it takes
> only a fraction of a second to be blown away, while an officer worries
> about whether to draw a service revolver and fire it.  "There's an old
> saying," the [police]  lieutenant advises, "Better to be judged by 12 than
> carried by 6."
>
> 1996 W. F. Strong _Persuasion: Strategies for Public Influence_  (Dubuque:
> Kendall/Hunt) 179: When the student asked his uncle if he would shoot
> another intruder, he said, "Yes, I would rather be judged by 12 than
> carried by 6."
>
> 2020 Quora.com: No matter what I had to do to survive, I told myself I was
> going to do it, and worry about the ethical and emotional fallout later.
> Or,
> as my infantry brethren say, “It’s better to be judged by 12 than carried
> by 6.”
>
> JL
>
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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