Re: The jury system is a joke
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I'm glad it was just a mock trial, but I'm sure the real jury will be just as ridiculous.
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That sounds about the same as my experience with jury trials. Logic, justice and truth take a back seat to emotion and prejudice.
Very discouraging.
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I just want to add that I agree with you in that I am not defending the jury system as being ideal - it is far from it. I just wanted to point out that people who claim that civil jury trials overcompensate tort plaintiffs are either misinformed or lying.
I also can't help but to add one more thing - if you don't think that a jury is fit to allocate liability in a civil trial, why do you think that a jury is fit to sentence a man to die?
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