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It’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
— Lt. Al ‘Gee’ Giardello · Homicide: Life on the Street
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The numbers contrast facing a jury with being carried to a grave. The speaker treats survival as preferable to the prospect of legal judgment. Its blunt compression expresses that priority, without settling whether any particular action taken in the name of survival would be justified.
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