From 'voir-dire' to 'verdict'
Voir-dire: To speak truth. Verdict: Ver-dict: to speak truth. Everyone sees truth through their own eyes, their own perceptual filters. Our eyes, our filters. We so often see what we want to see, what is expedient to see, what answers our personal needs to see. Does a jury speak truth? I suppose they do sometimes. But our adversarial system of justice, derived from the Magna Carta and the system of justice it established centuries ago in Great Britain, that we inherited, is not the only nor... Sign in to see full entry.