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Originally Posted by Iriemon  The lawyers don't pick them. They are picked by random from a pool. The lawyers can exclude them if they show bias (and with limited peremptory challenges). |
You say tomato I say tomahto. They have no more business eliminating my potential jurors than they do hand-picking my eventual ones.
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Originally Posted by Iriemon RNYC is right. The jurors are partial at the end. But they are supposed to be partial only based upon the evidence presented, and not because of pre-existing bias or other influences. |
I disagree. The biases of the average citizen are part of what protects me.
This is why we use a jury system in the first place. The average joe
has biases, and I dare anyone to claim the founders were unaware of that fact.