• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    And yet with millions of people to choose from I don’t think they will have a terrible time finding some that are pro-corporation and pro-billionaire and/or sufficiently against killing no matter what the justification.

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      Isn’t it a random selection (ignoring any possibility for manipulation for a moment) and then each lawyer gets a certain number of objections to a juror?

      I guess with this they can still try and stack a CEO sympathetic jury still.

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        Trying to rig the jury to be sympathetic to your side is one essential aspect of good lawyering. The rules are theoretically just objective filters applied to a random sample, but in practice it is a pure contest of skill between the two legal teams.

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          Oh I’m not against the practice you need to remove people that are not going to be impartial.

          I just find jurisprudence interesting in general so thought I would mention it.

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      The defense has to agree to the jury.

      There’s no way the prosecution can stack the jury with Musk fans or whatever, not a chance.