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> In fact jury selection is notorious for discarding potential jurors with intelligence, critical thinking, legal awareness, or domain expertise. Jurors reflect
by parineum 5y ago
> In fact jury selection is notorious for discarding potential jurors with intelligence, critical thinking, legal awareness, or domain expertise. Jurors reflect the part of society least qualified to be making these decisions.
Jurors get dismissed based on whether or not one side feels they decide in their favor or not. That's it.
- Buttons840 5y agoWhen there's no agreement I suspect the less educated are favored though. I'd believe a juror getting dismissed for knowing statistics and being persuadable by logical arguments, before I'd believe a juror being dismissed for being in a demographic who favors police and emotional arguments.
- parineum 5y agoDepends on which side is moving to dismiss that particular juror and what finding in their favor would require.
- Nevermark 5y agoSo whoever thinks their case is weakest when viewed intelligently (i.e. ability to handle subtletly, nuance, complexity, rational over emotion, science, statistics) is going to need to get those intelligent people off the jury.