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Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

In “The Rape of the Lock,” first published in 1712, Alexander Pope wrote this chilling couplet: The hungry judges soon the ­sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

From Scientific American • Jan. 6, 2012

The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Picking a panel of jurymen has rarely been much of a problem for many federal court clerks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first indictment failed in this case, by the honesty of one of the jurymen.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob