06-11-2019, 05:13 PM
Quote: @StickyBun said:
I always thought the biggest misnomer in American justice system is "jury of your peers". Really, then when someone like this or OJ is on trial why isn't the jury actually their peers...rich black athletes, or at least people who make a lot of money. I would never assume to be a peer of someone worth millions of dollars but maybe that's just the way I look at things. What makes the corporate executive or the inner city guy not working my peer when I'm a middle class guy who grew up a middle class household in Minnesota?@suncoastvike said:
@StickyBun said:
There are 8 other counts the jury is deadlocked on. That will have to get resolved.
If you've read about this guy, he's straight up perverted and violent. Some of the stuff he's done, he really shouldn't be let out in society again because you know he'll re-offend. I still don't get how a jury can believe he would rape and did expose himself to others but just don't know if he took it any further in those other cases???
So if you've never been involved in jury duty, its easy to not understand it because only after I was chosen as a jury foreman did I get it. The charges each have specific parameters around what you consider as a juror for guilt, innocence and reasonable doubt. So you are locked into those parameters and that's the prism you use. Juries also usually have a difficult time with the definition of reasonable doubt. And I'll say this: a group of your 'peers' is usually a disappointedly dumb crew. The whole process is organized but much more casual than you'd think.
