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photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/51720081_10156982732532264_3047621897463267328_n_10156982732522264.jpg Matt EvansOne thing that irritates me about jury trials in the USA is that allegedly I am deserving of a jury of “my peers”, but, in practice people try to stack juries with people too dumb to get out of jury duty.

Today in the US, if I am put on trial, I will never find a jury box full of my “peers”. The best I could hope for would be people from my community, but my understanding is that jurors are not allowed to have a personal relatinoship with me, or indeed, even to have experienced the same kind of situation I’d be on trial for.

How are such people peers? How can someone of a vastly different intelligence level [higher or lower], and who has never been in a similar situation to the one that the person charged with a crime found themselves in when committing a crime, truly be an informed juror and a peer?

What kind or jury reform does P suggest?

If “markets in everything” is a good idea, why not juries? Why not have a jury made up of 6 people who know the defendant, 6 people who know the victim, and 1 person who doesn’t know either, and a judicial outcome of a transactional, negotiated nature. Shouldn’t the verdict by the jury try to balance the need to protect victims, the need to protect community trust, and the need to protect the accused, the need to restore the specific victim, the need to have mercy [or not] on the specific accused, and result in a balanced outcome?

P mostly talks about having more judges and them being more important. What about juries?Feb 13, 2019, 1:20 AMCurt Doolittlethe truth is juries have an INCREDIBLE record that should be the envy of every science.Feb 13, 2019, 10:28 AMCurt DoolittleThe only material problem with juries is that people don’t get paid – and they should. We aren’t farmers any longer with planting and harvest and lots of fungible time in between.Feb 13, 2019, 10:29 AMCurt DoolittleOne of the reasons they don’t pay is that they want to maintain a middle class jury pool. and it works pretty well.Feb 13, 2019, 10:29 AMCurt Doolittletoo many government employees tho.Feb 13, 2019, 10:29 AMDrew JoinerProfessional juries, professional judges.Feb 13, 2019, 2:34 PMJoshua SkeensIs it true that those who refuse to convict don’t get called to serve again?Feb 13, 2019, 3:45 PMStephen ThomasCurt Doolittle If you had to “put a number on it”. How close in percentage do you think the Founders “got it”?

10%, 20%, etc?Feb 15, 2019, 4:46 PMCurt Doolittleno system of measurment. It’s easy in retrospect to see how and why they made it as far as they did. But I don’t think it was possible to ‘think’ in the manner we use today at that time.Feb 15, 2019, 6:07 PM