[ClearCase_guy]

Woodward, Bernstein, and Collins have a new book coming out: "How We Brought Down Two Administrations".

I'm reminded of the Dustin Hoffman/Gene Hackman movie of a few years back, where the activist wanted to get rid of guns and decided that getting himself onto a jury was the best way to pursue his political agenda. But I'm sure that could never happen in real life.

[Doc91678]

You may be right. I believe they took the wrong person off the jury.
Collins sounds like a ringer for the prosecution. If I were the judge at the sentencing I would nullify the jury and their decision. But I doubt that would happen.

[CutePuppy]

John Grisham's "Runaway Jury"

[anymouse]

Synopsis Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun, with her lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), arguing that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations pertaining to the sale of firearms. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer is taking no chances on the outcome of a potentially devastating case, and they hire as part of their legal team Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman), a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee the result of the trial. Fitch and his team have learned incriminating secrets about nearly everyone hearing the evidence, but Fitch discovers two factors he wasn't counting upon -- Nick Easter (John Cusack), the jury member who appears to have an agenda all his own, and Marlee (Rachel Weisz), a mysterious woman who has her own plans regarding bending the jury to her will.

[VRWCmember]

I'm reminded of the Dustin Hoffman/Gene Hackman movie of a few years back, where the activist wanted to get rid of guns and decided that getting himself onto a jury was the best way to pursue his political agenda. But I'm sure that could never happen in real life.

That was Runaway Jury. In the book by John Grisham the guy got himself onto the jury of a tobacco lawsuit. Of course, the idea that you could get yourself into the jury pool and manage to get selected for jury duty the very day that the jury pool for a particular case is being empaneled is pretty far-fetched.