On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:57:04 +0100, andrel wrote:

> On 25-3-2009 5:39, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:40:00 +0100, andrel wrote:
> 
>> I think it's a shame people try to get out of jury duty; it's actually
>> quite fascinating, at least I think so.
> 
> I talked to one that got out of it yesterday. But he knew the system
> anyway, having been sued a couple of times for not so good reasons. He
> is a medical doctor and the first couple of hits when you google him are
> sites that will provide you with his track record both in clinical
> practice as well as in the court room for money. I though that is quite
> sad. Somehow I expected to find his homepage at his university and his
> outstanding scientific contributions first.

Under those circumstances, he'd probably be dismissed by the prosecution 
in many cases anyways, since the prosecuting side wouldn't want someone 
who was angry at "the system" and might be inclined to take their anger 
about the system out against the prosecutors by being excessively lenient 
on the defendant.  At the very least, there would likely be a few extra 
questions during voir dire.

> Other than that I agree, I think I would have liked to do it if we had
> had a system with juries, which we don't.

Interesting.

Jim

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