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Originally Posted by Vettezuki
There are often extensive jury instructions given. Also, there is a long and drawn out jury selection process for each case. This could be substantially simplified and all of the taxpayer funded overhead eliminated.
In reality, juries are never going to be a representative sample of society because attorneys are goddamned careful about who they pick to put on them. If it were a truly random sample of the population, with no culling, then you might have a point. As it is, you really don't IMO.
This is besides the point for me. I'm not property of the state. You can ask me to serve. You can't force me (morally).
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I know all about jury instruction. Those instructions are given to remove the law questions from the facts, jurors are often taken down a multiple choice path in deciding the facts, so at the end the question of law is obvious.
Attorneys do not pick juries. They are allowed to remove jury members for non-prejudiced reasons. But still random, just a selected pool of the random.