I must respect the opinions of my fellow jurors, as they must
respect mine, and in a spirit of tolerance and understanding must
endeavor to bring the deliberations of the whole jury to agreement upon a
verdict, but
I must never assent to a verdict which violates
the instructions of the court or which finds as a fact that which, under
the evidence and in my conscience, I believe to be untrue.
In
fine, I must apply the Golden Rule by putting myself impartially in the
place of the plaintiff and of the defendant, remembering that although I
am a juror today passing upon the rights of others, tomorrow I may be a
litigant whose rights other jurors shall pass upon.
My Verdict
must do justice, for what is just is true and righteous altogether";
and when my term of jury service is ended, I must leave it with my
citizenship unsullied and my conscience clear.
Judge John H. Flanigan,
Carthage, Missouri