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Should We Abolish the Jury System?
pete
Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 3:54 PM
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Was called for jury duty early this year. We were told the only people who would be excused would be judges and lawyers, and then only if they had court business (cases) pending with in the projected time limits for the cases they would be selected for. Our jury system is good. The problem we have is with so many lawyers - the ones who benefit from the laws - passing and enacting laws that will benefit them. We could do quite well, thank you, with about half our current laws.As expert witnesses learned long ago, nothing is 100% certain, so they began to use the phrase "scientific certainty," which adhered to a 99.99% standard. Had this jury been charged with finding to a "99% certainty" rather than "beyond a reasonable doubt" the results could well have been different. Of course, you can't execute on a 99% certainty, so the death penalty is automatically removed from the equation.