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

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