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Originally Posted by RightinNYC  In situations where there is voir dire, one of the people there is by definition, protecting you. |
So my fate was supposed to rest in the hands of twelve citizens, but this makes it rest on which lawyer was slicker. Unnacceptable shift of power.
The idea, was that anything the government wanted to do to a citizen, they would need 12 citizen's to sign off on it. That is the core idea of a jury system. The slick lawyer's machinations weaken that protection. One lawyer is always better than another, so two adversarial lawyers will very rarely actually "tie" in these machinations. This means that most juries will then be
partial, and partial to the side whose lawyer is better at Voir Dire.