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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Av. Justice ?????
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:10:43 EST
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> 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