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Makes sense why I was dismissed from jury duty in Baltimore. One of the questions I was asked was if I would believe a police officer's testimony to be true jus
by millzlane 6y ago
Makes sense why I was dismissed from jury duty in Baltimore. One of the questions I was asked was if I would believe a police officer's testimony to be true just because he was a cop.
- ultrarunner 6y agoCould you elaborate on the question asked and how you answered? While I wouldn't exactly be surprised, the idea that a lawyer for either side could just blatantly fish for sympathetic jurors seems like a wild miscarriage of due process. It doesn't seem clearly morally distinct from e.g. simply paying jurors to convict.
- pfranz 6y agoI'm pretty sure this is an incredibly common subject during voir dire. While this is probably more on the benign side of questioning, I remember being asked if anyone had negative interactions with law enforcement. I'm less confident, but I'm pretty sure followup questions were more specific to trusting law enforcement's testimony.
- plorkyeran 6y agoI've been through multiple jury selections where they've explicitly asked if I'd be willing to convict based solely on the word of a police officer, with both lawyers seemingly expecting the answer to be yes.