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Judicial Procedure IV
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| After the speeches, each juror was given two ballots
(psephoi), one with a hollow center (for the prosecution) and one
with a solid center (for the defense). Each juror, holding the ballot so
that the center was concealed, dropped one ballot into a box which was
valid, and the other into a box which was invalid. If the verdict was guilty,
then a second round of balloting decided between the penalties proposed
by the two sides. |
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Ballot box with ballots still inside, found within
the building at the NE corner of the Agora
identified as a lawcourt
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Another view of the "ballot box."
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The six jurors' ballots found within the box.
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A closer view of two of the ballots, one with a solid axle,
(for acquittal) and the other with a hollow axle (for prosecution).
One is marked with an E;
the other is inscribed,
CHFOS DHMOSIA
(public ballot).
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