The main argument in favour of the peremptory challenge is the right it gives to the defendant to choose , to a certain extent , one 's own jurors . This is taken to be yet another privilege that generates extra `layer ' of protection for the defendant . In Britain , where this procedure originated , Sir William Balckstone , for instance , believed that it was a ``defendant 's privilege ' and ``a provision full of that tenderness and humanity for prisoners for which our laws are justly...











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