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Casey Anthony Acquitted!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 443440"><p>I was the foreman of 2 juries, one a trivial lawsuit and the other a notorious murder trial in Akron where there was possible reasonable doubt but where the murderer was obviously one of 2 people (each accused the other--hence the reasonable doubt, both ways). My experience of both was that a) most juries are groups of unbelievably unfocused, emotional, unsystematic, superstitious/religious, stubborn/indifferent unskilled thinkers, and b) a good foreman is VITAL to achieving justice, and even then the odds aren't good--there are 11 people for the foreman to somehow corral into a shared decision. The probability of a completely bone-stupid verdict is very high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 443440"] I was the foreman of 2 juries, one a trivial lawsuit and the other a notorious murder trial in Akron where there was possible reasonable doubt but where the murderer was obviously one of 2 people (each accused the other--hence the reasonable doubt, both ways). My experience of both was that a) most juries are groups of unbelievably unfocused, emotional, unsystematic, superstitious/religious, stubborn/indifferent unskilled thinkers, and b) a good foreman is VITAL to achieving justice, and even then the odds aren't good--there are 11 people for the foreman to somehow corral into a shared decision. The probability of a completely bone-stupid verdict is very high. [/QUOTE]
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