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Why do you assume the Jury has no technical knowledge? Lawyers often seek engineers and technical minded people in voir dire for technical cases. Not subject ma

• lawdawg 15y ago
  you obviously didn't follow along during jury selection. Anyone with any software/engineering background was excused from the jury. The current jury has no technical knowledge whatsoever.
  • gte910h 15y ago
    Where did you see this? No, I didn't see that.
    • dpifke 15y ago
      A description of the selection process (by someone who was in the courtroom when the jury was selected) can be found here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#Update_6 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#U... The judge specifically asked if anyone had software design experience; the two people who raised their hands were excused. He later asked, "there are geeky types of people and people who are not into technology. If you are on a geeky end, could you raise your hand?" Noone raised their hand.
      • coopdog 15y ago
        Why on earth would he want non-geeks.. I understand there could be a bias, but on the other hand these people are making interpretations of the law that could have very large consequences for a long time. Self described non-geeks are going to have very little knowledge and potentially little care of those consequences The judge should have filtered for bias in other ways