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That's the problem with the American judicial system. Whenever they want to convict someone innocent of a bullshit crime they just assemble of idiots who just
by Fuxy 13y ago
That's the problem with the American judicial system.
Whenever they want to convict someone innocent of a bullshit crime they just assemble of idiots who just say guilty to go home to their trailer.
Have they heard of the phrase "jury of their pears" that actually means pears not of the same species.
I wouldn't consider any of the people on that jury my pears.
- iopq 13y agojury of my pears? Why would the jury consist of fruits?
- ben0x539 13y ago(peers)
- BWStearns 13y agoI for one would be fascinated to see a jury of pears.
- tomjen3 13y agojury of one's peers n. a guaranteed right of criminal defendants, in which "peer" means an "equal." This has been interpreted by courts to mean that the available jurors include a broad spectrum of the population, particularly of race, national origin and gender. Jury selection may include no process which excludes those of a particular race or intentionally narrows the spectrum of possible jurors. It does not mean that women are to be tried by women, Asians by Asians, or African Americans by African Americans. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/jury+of+one's+peers http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/jury+of+one's+... But originally jury of ones peers was a right of (so called noble) Englishmen to be judged by other lords, and not by commoners. Sadly, it does not give intellectual people the right to be judged by others with above room temperature IQ (what is it they say, a jury consists of 12 people not smart enough to get out jury duty?).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Sadly, it does not give intellectual people the right to be judged by others with above room temperature IQ The closest English precedent for that was not the "jury of one's peers" but the "benefit of clergy".