2 PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world, and itsefficiency is marred only by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't knowanything and can't read."Mark TwainRoughing It (1913)"Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guiltor innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. If it wishes for lightupon that awful matter, its asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel thethings that I felt in the jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar systemdiscovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anythingdone that is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing about."Gilbert K. ChestertonTremendous Trifles: The Twelve Men (1922)"Lawyers have been know to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts ofacquittal for their clients even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly andunmistakably innocent."Oscar WildeIrish poet, dramatist, novelist,essayist and critic1854-1900"A jury verdict is a quotient of the prejudices of twelve people."Kenneth P. Grubb"False Fears"26 Insurance Counsel Journal 480 (1959).STORYTELLINGLitigation is, of course, storytelling. In litigation there are at least two versions of the story to be told or there would be no reason to try the case. To persuade the fact-finder, the