Re: murderers (was: Re: MicroSoft as Slave Master?)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 22:46:42 MDT


At 12:25 AM 7/31/02 -0400, Harvey wrote:

>When picking out
>juries, we are more concerned with the defendant's right to a jury of
>their peers.

True, but perhaps it tends to produce a jury of their inferiors or at least
of their most dazed and compliant peers.

>In the case where the defendant doesn't want a particular
>juror, we err on the side of dismissing the juror.

But doesn't the prosecution also have a number of challenges, which they
also use to mediocritize the final set?

Damien Broderick
[everything I know about US law I learned from John Grisham conspiracy
movies and THE PRACTICE]



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