Comments on: Jurors as grown-ups

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:09:49 +0000

But that’s not the jury “not getting it,” William. It’s about us not getting the jury.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:41:36 +0000

“When you talk and they don’t get it, it’s not their fault. It’s yours.”

The OJ jury were shown Colin Yamanuchie’s (soory for the spelling) DNA Runs showing the match of OJ’s pattern to that of the real killer. Those runs were beautiful and easy to understand. Either the bars lined up or they didn’t. The non-OJ bars were all over the place. The jury shrugged off the dispositive evidence for tribal reasons. I’m still mad as hell about that.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:51:15 +0000

When you talk and they don’t get it, it’s not their fault. It’s yours.

Bob

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:18:00 +0000

@AMcA maybe the questions were illuminating for that very reason? I give scientific presentations and sometimes the questions are so far off base I come to several conclusions. Either my explanation was flawed or not clear, the audience member didn’t have the background to understand it or their own agenda got in the way of understanding.

Better to know than not know.

By: Difster

Difster — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:27:52 +0000

Let’s see what happens as soon as they start asking about jury nullification.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:57:15 +0000

They will still dress like kindergartners, however.

By: AMcA

AMcA — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:34:42 +0000

The Seventh Circuit has a project which provides rules under which jurors may ask questions. I’ve been through a couple trials with juror questions, and not to be a killjoy here, but their questions have not really been illuminating. And the procedure requires a sidebar and eats a lot of time. District judges have been opting out of the experiment, it seems – I haven’t had a judge raise it in a couple years.