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Someone told me that knowing what jury nullification is can get you out of jury duty, because if the attorneys find out you know what it is during the jury sele
by thayne 4y ago
Someone told me that knowing what jury nullification is can get you out of jury duty, because if the attorneys find out you know what it is during the jury selection process, they won't want you on the jury. I don't know if that's true though.
- nostromo 4y agoDon’t try to get out of jury duty. Someone’s life is on the line. Suck it up and do your civic duty.
- justzisguyuknow 4y agoThat's only true in some cases. What about when it's a frivolous civil liability suit, e.g. a slip and fall case. Is there a moral duty to participate in that?
- panda-giddiness 4y agoHow do you know whether the case is frivolous before it's even been tried?
- ransom1538 4y ago"Don’t try to get out of jury duty." My mother was a court stenographer. She had a job in a small court once in nowhere northern california. They had a few jurors skip out of jury duty. The judge told the bailiff walk outside get 2 random people. Sure enough, there was a chef wearing a uniform and some construction worker. BAM. The court is ready.
- gambiting 4y agoI believe jury duty is an awful way to decide justice and it shouldn't exist. Other countries manage without it just fine. In my opinion it's your civic duty to get out of it and not support it.
- celticninja 4y agoExamples of other countries that don't use jury systems and have better outcomes?
- arlort 4y agoNot sure how you'd define a metric for "better outcome" to be honest
- Kbelicius 4y agoAs far as I know vast majority of countries in Europe don't use a jury system and are doing quite fine. Which was what GP stated, that they are managing quite fine without it. Not that they have better outcomes.
- gambiting 4y agoMost EU countries don't use juries, or only use them for the worst crimes(rape/murder) and only in very narrow set of circumstances. "and have better outcomes?" Honesly I have no idea how you'd define what is a "better" outcome.
- mcv 4y ago> Honesly I have no idea how you'd define what is a "better" outcome. I think less blatant racism or classism in the verdicts would be better. In the US there's no shortage of examples of poor people of colour getting far more severe punishments for crimes for which rich white people get minor punishment or barely a slap on the wrist.
- whimsicalism 4y agoEurope is also super racist, they just don't have sizable black populations. Anecdotally, I have witnessed Europeans saying much more casually racist things than coastal Americans.
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- post_break 4y agoThe court for me is 40 minutes away. They make you park in a parking lot down town that isn't safe and you have to walk or take some shuttle to the courthouse. Can't take my gun with me for obvious reasons. Spend my gas getting there. Then if the parking lot gets full I have to pay for parking as well. All for me to be sent home because I know what jury nullification is, don't believe prostitution is a crime, or minor drug charges. But yeah, tell me more to suck it up.
- sophacles 4y agoYou get compensated for your jury duty - not well compensated, but enough to cover gas for sure. The rest of your whining is likely just as factually false - get over yourself.
- post_break 4y agoWhat do I gain from lying? I get paid $6 for each day of jury duty. It's 50 miles round trip per day. Depending on traffic that does not cover my gas. Your comment adds nothing to this discussion.
- sophacles 4y agoWhen did I accuse you of lying?
- Beltiras 4y agoProsecutors will probably try to strike you for cause.