Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012202273.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

> I thought Warp might be interested in seeing a story about why Americans 
> think juries are a good idea.  I'm not saying I'm agreeing or not, but this 
> is the sort of thing people argue that's a good reason for juries.

  OTOH, how many examples are there where the jury has convicted the
defendant because of prejudice rather than neutral objectivity, or because
of not having sufficient expertise in order to form an informed judgement?
How many have convicted someone lightly because of a sentiment of "I don't
want to be sitting here all day, I'll just agree with the others"?

  I guess that those cases don't often end up in Washington Post...

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                                                          - Warp

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