Posted on 06/07/2017 3:32:03 AM PDT by Mechanicos
Meanwhile, just last week we learned of an acquitted black murderer.
A black juror told the panel early on she would not vote to convict “because there were too many young black men in jail”
"Barred" and "exempt" have different connotations, but I take your point, they have a get out of (federal) jury duty card. I would suspect any local courts honor it.
The feds also excuse "persons over age 70; persons who have, within the past two years, served on a federal jury; and persons who serve as volunteer fire fighters or members of a rescue squad or ambulance crew."
sate of Washington excludes full time students, but doesn't exclude government employees.
Maine law exempts the following individuals from jury service:State of Maine Judicial Branch: Jury Information - Exemptions, Excuses, and Deferrals
- the Governor
- judges
- physicians and dentists providing active patient care
- veterinarians with or in an active veterinary medicine practice
- sheriffs
- attorneys at law
- and members of the armed forces on active duty.
Connecticut does not exempt police, but I bet they get voir dired out, pronto!
The opposition to "peers" would be when a court grants a motion for a change of venue. This would cause a jury to be made up of people from another town who would have different living conditions from the person being tried, and would not likely know the reputation of the defendant.
-PJ
Juries need to be of “peers”, because you don’t want an all-white jury in the Old South trying a black man; or an all ghetto jury trying a white man in 2017.
The jury is there to prevent the state from forcing a wrongful conviction.
It is NOT there to “represent a cross-section of the community”.
(The community is not on trial or in danger of facing wrongful conviction.)
Juries are a funky institution, in some cases perverted by the legal system, in some cases nothing but perfunctory window dressing, and in some cases doing righteous work.
Most jurors are ill informed. Think "WalMart people," and that cohort is s step up from the typical jury. Juries are people to stupid to get out of jury duty.
They like to say, "My courtroom." It isn't "their" courtroom, it's the people courtroom!
Our Courts DO NOT WANT fully informed Jurists— they want a Jury controlled by the Judicial system .We have the totalitarian government we deserve.
This guy will win on appeal and then can sue the judge and the cops who arrested him.
Normally a judge is not civilly liable for their actions, but in this case, he is the complaining witness so is action was not in his role as a judge.
You can quit posting everything to Frontpage.
Now.
I posted 3 articles this morning. Only this one was posted to Front page and as far as I could see it was within the guidelines as activism, constitutional and from a legit source. My record is pretty good with postings on FR as you can tell.
You Instruction is confusing as it seems to contradict the posted guidelines and past experience. Are you saying I can no longer post to frontpage? Anything? Why?
Well here’s hoping his victim was black and all future victims will be black.
These thugs go back into this woman’s neighborhood.
Really, so is he in jail?
Truth is tampering? Or are the pamphlets lefty disinfo to harm the trial by jury process?
I have no idea. The book that was written on the subject was compelling, to me at least. Count me as one of the few, maybe, who doesn’t think that OJ is guilty of murder.
His blood was at the scene, knife cut on his finger, multiple threats made, and the gloves that actually did fit and his DNA, her DNA, and Goldmans DNA. Overwhelming evidence but the Africans on the stacked jury didn’t believe it either.
You don’t need to retry the case with me. He was found not guilty by a jury of his peers. Your pointing out the race of the jurors, and the verbage you used is duly noted (I guess you felt it was going to cross the line to use the n-word?). The funny thing is, you have probably voted for politicians who support the welfare state (the reason the black family unit has been destroyed) and illegal immigration (which restricts employment opportunities for poor Americans).
The glove didn’t fit man!
Sorry, my brother is a lawyer and was sickened by the case outcome. I think there were 10 Africans on the jury of 12 and there was no way in hell they were ever going to convict OJ.
The book of fiction you read does is not an argument with evidence.
You are referring to Americans as “Africans”
Do you really think we need frank prejudice in this forum?
Unless your brother was a criminal defense attorney with intimate knowledge of the evidence, his opinion is not worth much more than any layman. We have people falsely convicted despite exculpatory evidence on a routine basis. Prosecutors and police routinely lie in Court, pursue cases for political reasons etc. and the lawyers and judges are rarely given meaningful punishment for misdeeds. We had a judge here in TX given a prison term for malfeasance a few years ago, and it was an absolute shock.
The man who wrote the books on OJ was, I believe former LAPD with a 50 year resume in investigation. I’ll take his word over Mark Fuhrman any day.
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