Jury Duty --again

BCEagle91
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:51:55 +0000

“Exactly.”

Not really.

The system is geared to limiting the amount of information that a jury hears. Take a look at the Duke Lacrosse case and the Grand Jury system. The Grand Jury only got a small bit of information and it was misleading to boot. You had a completely corrupt criminal justice system from the judges, prosecutors, police and politicians. It took forever for the Attorney General and the Bar to step in and even then it cost the defendents a million each to defend themselves against a legal and media onslaught.

“Maybe the one person who would have voted “not guilty” made up some excuse to get out of serving.”

Non sequitur. That person may have been just as likely to put the dude away because he was portrayed by the prosecution and media as a bad guy.