re: Do you believe in our jury system?

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I believe in people doing their civic duty, but can you blame them?

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Absolutely I can. Freedoms and rights have costs. The 2A is paid for with spilled innocent blood every year but it doesn't mean we should repeal it. There are droves of people every year that try every lame excuse to not do their civic duty while many of them think they are "good Americans". They are special little snowflakes that think their lives are so important they can't be bothered to participate in one of the things that makes our country great.

In general, I believe strongly in the jury system it is damn hard to convince 12 (or 6/9) people of something that the information provided at trial doesn't support. I also think on the whole juries do a better job with fact questions than do judges.

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We should consider moving towards professional juries.

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Unfortunately this. We waste hundreds of millions at a time to expand courthouses, but virtually 0 on improving legal infrastructure... like more public defenders to keep the system moving.

If we were actually tried by a jury of our “peers” things would be slot different.


a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status

Not 4 random people of the opposite race who automatically are discriminatory, 4 old ladies who still write checks to pay the grocery store, and 4 random idiots who don’t have a job so they had nothing better to do but be on a jury.

There is another way to do it, professional jurors. I would trust them more than regular folk. I’m a working professional, my peers should be people who are professionals as well.