Jury Duty --again

BCEagle91
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:57:35 +0000

“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.”

Or you could misrepresent the evidence and common sense and not present exculpatory evidence as in the Duke Lacrosse case. In that case, the Grand Jury system was used to get around proscutors having to go through Probable Cause hearings. The proceedings are sealed so noone ever finds out what goes on. Of course in the Duke Lacrosse case, two of the Grand Jurors went on the media (with their bodies blacked out) and discussed what happened.