Comments on: “Twelve Angry Men” https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/twelve-angry-men-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/twelve-angry-men-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10562 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:15:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5810#comment-10562 “Today, any knowledge gets the juror excluded. No one is allowed to interfere with the competition of lawyer fairy tales that makes a trial today.”

QFT – heaven forbid the peasants get the idea that the lawyers aren’t their omnipotent rulers.

]]> By: Supremacy Claus https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/twelve-angry-men-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10561 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:07:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5810#comment-10561 Despite the IQ’s of 300 of each of those commenters, none will say it. None even thinks about it. None ever, ever, ever questions it.

Physiologically based lie detectors are forbidden at trial. Yet, the lawyers all believe twelve people off the street can use gut feelings to detect the truth. They have zero tolerance for any who questions.

In 1250 AD, the jury had walked the edges of the disputed property line, ten years before. The jury knew the criminal since childhood. They had knowledge. The validated wisdom of the crowd was discovered at that time, and served justice.

Today, any knowledge gets the juror excluded. No one is allowed to interfere with the competition of lawyer fairy tales that makes a trial today.

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