But Richard learned from defense attorney Franklin Dexter that Massachusetts law did not allow the trial of an accessory to a crime unless the principal had first been tried and convicted.

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, an 18th-century jurist who wrote a famous four-volume history of English law, described a man’s right to trial by his peers as “the principal bulwark of our liberties”.

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