Essay On Jury Pools

I think that reforms should take place within the jury pools. This is due to the fact that even though lawyers and judges know the law, ultimately the decision is left to the group of peers the court has appointed to reside over the case. With reforms being put into action for the jurors I believe that cases with be better deliberated. I feel that may jurors go into a jury selections having set ideas of what is expected of them based on social misconceptions. With reforms not only with jurors be better selection to avoid any bias thinking originally but they will also help to effectively explain what is needed of them and how they can go about achieving that. For the first part of the reform, I think that jury selectin should be left entirely for the judge to decide. The judge doesn’t have a say in the outcome of the trial so his/her third party opinion doesn’t leave favor with either side of the court. As it currently stands, prosecution is allowed to select jurors, then the …show more content…
First and for most the deliberations would be taped or somehow recorded for future use if need be. With that being said, the deliberation records would only be released for special circumstances or during the possibility that a new case has been formed and has valid reports that would be case altering. During this time, I think that the jurors should be allowed to ask questions. As of now, jurors are allowed any evidences presented along with any verbal records produced, but how often do the jurors have the knowledge to comprehend any of this. If there was a reform to allow the jurors to discuss with experts, what the meaning was behind their reporting, I feel better decisions would be made. The jurors would have a better feel how the validity of the science and then can decided for themselves if what they are hearing matches up with stories being presented to me or if the logic/ commonsense