Do You Have Confidence In A Jury?

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Do you have confidence that a jury will get it right most of the time?

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I have about as much confidence in a jury to get it right as I do that you would hold up your end of a bet.

fricking welcher

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I have about as much confidence in a jury to get it right as I do that you would hold up your end of a bet.

fricking welcher

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‘A jury of your peers, to be exact.’ Who are your peers, and where are you going to find them?

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Yes.

Having tried several hundred cases, both civil and criminal I would say juries get the base question of guilt and responsibility correct about 90% of the time. Keep in mind this is based on seeing the entire trial and knowing all the testimony presented and how it was presented. Where juries get capricious and or out of their depth is monetary rewards and criminal sentences (in jurisdictions/cases where juries decide sentences). In that part of the process, they simply do not have the experience to set reasonable relative values.

i trust a jury more than I trust Judge Trudy White.

No. Most people are idiots and lack true objectivity

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No...and if you’ve ever sat on a jury you should agree

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I am curious if you could expound on this. While I have spent a lot of time trying to understand the thought process of a jury I have never been on one, as soon as my occupation is disclosed no attorney or even judge wants me on their jury.