Assertion: jury's role | /r/HasAspect | chequered history
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text: Although the role of juries and jurors has a somewhat chequered history, 'the jury, in one form or the other, became the formal method of proof of the guilt or [otherwise] of a person on trial'", and juries remain one of the 'cornerstones' of the criminal justice system in many countries.