Jury Duty --again

ellemenope
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:15:55 +0000

My sister served on a jury a couple of years ago and after it was all over she chatted with a friend who is a cop and was furious to find out common knowledge info which was never presented in court. All bureaucracies are are by nature inefficient<<




It may not have been inefficiency but a constitutional issue. By the time the case goes to trial, the procedural matters are taken care of. Just like on Law & Order, you can get certain evidence or confessions thrown out of court if those confessions or evidence were obtained by violating someone’s constitutional rights.

So at trial, you won’t hear about that evidence.