Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Av. Justice ????? Message-ID: <282@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:10:43 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.282 Posted: Wed Jan 16 02:10:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 00:37:22 EST References: <10400008@hpfcmt.UUCP> <1274@hou4b.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 > From my experience as a juror and as a witness, the events described > in the original article are not uncommon. ... > The job of the lawyer, in a courtroom, is to convince a > jury of the peers of the defendant. If a technical understanding of > power transmission or aerodynamics is germaine to the case, then an > expert witness is called, and all jurors learn together. > > -Dave Levenson Originally, the idea of a "jury of your peers" was that the jury should be of the same class as, and thus as sympathetic as was reasonable to, the defendant. A proper modern analog would persons of the same profession or whatever. Maybe we should move this to net.legal. --JoSH