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Originally Posted by Voidwar  You say tomato I say tomahto. They have no more business eliminating my potential jurors than they do hand-picking my eventual ones. |
They do, because they are entitled to an impartial jury too.
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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.
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How would it be fair if several members of the jury pool were biased because they were related to the opposing party and his lawyer?