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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

It’s a shame that they can’t just take jurors’ names out of a “Jury Duty” list and impanel them. To go through all this nonsense is ridiculous. Can you possibly be so damn guilty that you can never go on trial?


3 posted on 05/09/2011 8:30:32 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks
When they were impaneling the jury in the Sacco & Vanzetti Case, even before the trial had become a cause célèbre of the left, they went through the jury panel without seating a jury. The sheriff's deputy "arrested" everyone at a Masonic Lodge and dragged them in for jury duty. (Under Massachusetts Law, a judge can order the sheriff to press passers-by on the highways and byways into the jury pool. A (nitwit) judge actually did this about 15 years ago in Framingham. I don't mind jury duty, but normally you have months to plan for it. ) That became one of the basis of one of their numerous appeals, the defense charging that Masons could be expected to have a nativist bias.

Normally, when I serve on jury duty the defense, as a matter of course, uses their peremptory challenges to eliminate the most educated jurors, so I'm safe unless I get called after they've used them up.

9 posted on 05/09/2011 9:06:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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