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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1194151" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>Yep. I can live with that. What really stinks is when the judge or members of the jury are biased. I have seen cases where the judge was clearly in the pocket of the defense. Or they have personal political, moral or philosophical biases that render them ineffective in being objective.</p><p></p><p>I have watched Administrative Judges go into tirades in which they exposed biases that portrayed that their decision was going to be tainted. No matter how sacred we hold our judical system to be, the judgement is finally in the hands of human beings. That is why jury selection is critical. One side wants to get all the screwballs off the jury (usually the prosecutor) and the other side wants the jury loaded with screwballs.</p><p></p><p>I was on a jury in Denver where a man was being tried for stalking his ex-wife. He had threatened her with a gun and had beaten her. It was a simple decision and I thought it would take about 5 minutes to decide. Turns out a male on the jury had just gone through a difficult divorce and concluded that it was the ex-wife's fault. We did not get a conviction as he refused to vote guilty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1194151, member: 17767"] Yep. I can live with that. What really stinks is when the judge or members of the jury are biased. I have seen cases where the judge was clearly in the pocket of the defense. Or they have personal political, moral or philosophical biases that render them ineffective in being objective. I have watched Administrative Judges go into tirades in which they exposed biases that portrayed that their decision was going to be tainted. No matter how sacred we hold our judical system to be, the judgement is finally in the hands of human beings. That is why jury selection is critical. One side wants to get all the screwballs off the jury (usually the prosecutor) and the other side wants the jury loaded with screwballs. I was on a jury in Denver where a man was being tried for stalking his ex-wife. He had threatened her with a gun and had beaten her. It was a simple decision and I thought it would take about 5 minutes to decide. Turns out a male on the jury had just gone through a difficult divorce and concluded that it was the ex-wife's fault. We did not get a conviction as he refused to vote guilty. [/QUOTE]
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