Zitat des Tages über Jurys / Juries:
I have had it with people who are threatening me and my kids and my family over simply commenting on the law and criminal procedure, and respecting juries. Because they do work hard. They work way harder than I do; and they work way harder than the rest of those people making those peanut gallery comments.
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.
'CSI' has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a 'CSI' effect' that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.