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fact.

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DELEGATE JAMES: For what purpose does Delegate

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Anderson rise?

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DELEGATE ANDERSON: I rise to speak against the

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amendment and in favor of the majority report,

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Anderson.

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DELEGATE ANDERSON: Mr. Chairman, as the former

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State's Attorney in Anne Arundel County for a number of

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years, and as a practicing attorney for a good many years,

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I would like to say that I found the jury system in the

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trial of criminal cases satisfactory, whether I was defending

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or prosecuting.

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I think I can conscientiously say during the

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entire period of time when I was State's Attorney, I never

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knew of an innocent man convicted, or a guilty one escaping.

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I think that the criminal law, and especially

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with a trained or experienced prosecutor, is comparatively

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simple. You can read the basic law to him, you can explain

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it to him. You can read it out of the book to him, and

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likewise the defense can do the same thing, and therefor I

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feel, speaking purely from experience, that I think it would