The jury system to me is complex, it is a citizen’s way of helping out. The jury system is interesting because it is people who get called out and many of them have to do it. The sad part about the jury system is that financial hardships or other types of hardships get in the way. I think that I have seen very diverse jury’s except in two jury panels. One jury panel that was kind of odd to me was a recent one, it was the trial were a person was caught with a small knife they called a dagger. In the case, the jury had two women, a majority of middle aged men, and 1 younger fellow. Moreover, I’m not sure why the jury was like this when the defendant who was representing himself looked like he was not close to middle age. I think the jury system
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Although the Jury might have mob mentality, which could be rare because I hope that at least a few people can think as an individual, but I think there is a better chance with the jury. It is easier to appeal to the juries’ emotion, and also one has a better chance that at least a few jurors would be more generous in a sense. I think it would scary would if most of the jurors were not paying attention when something important was going on, which is likely. Which is another negative, how can you make sure that they are aware and attentive, you just can’t know for sure. I think the jury that sort of surprised me was the transsexual homicide case. On one side, I understand the jury for the case because the defense attorney was really good and he really finished strong when it came to his closing statement. On the other hand, the jury saw all the pictures and everything, I did not even get to see everything, yet I think that the testimony and humanizing of the defendant had something to do with it. This jury was on a time crunch because I know that someone had another personal trial they were in and someone else had a flight set. Moreover, I think they must have really thought and discussed it to come to a unanimous decision on their choice of the
Although the Jury might have mob mentality, which could be rare because I hope that at least a few people can think as an individual, but I think there is a better chance with the jury. It is easier to appeal to the juries’ emotion, and also one has a better chance that at least a few jurors would be more generous in a sense. I think it would scary would if most of the jurors were not paying attention when something important was going on, which is likely. Which is another negative, how can you make sure that they are aware and attentive, you just can’t know for sure. I think the jury that sort of surprised me was the transsexual homicide case. On one side, I understand the jury for the case because the defense attorney was really good and he really finished strong when it came to his closing statement. On the other hand, the jury saw all the pictures and everything, I did not even get to see everything, yet I think that the testimony and humanizing of the defendant had something to do with it. This jury was on a time crunch because I know that someone had another personal trial they were in and someone else had a flight set. Moreover, I think they must have really thought and discussed it to come to a unanimous decision on their choice of the