MEMORANDUM OPINION (Corrected) KAPLAN, District Judge. Among the antecedents of our modern jury trial was wager of law, or compurgation, a form of trial by ordeal. The accused found a number of people and then took a solemn oath that he or she was innocent. The “companions, or ‘compurga-tors’ as they were called, then swore that the oath which he [or she…
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