The jury system, within the United States, is a complex organism that many people do not understand. Those that do can often game the judicial system in various ways. It has been called the very worst system in the world except for all of the other countries. This American Jury System Review will take this into account.
The way the courts work, with juries involved, are relatively straight forward. A charged person comes before the court with their lawyer. A prosecutor, who works for the State or government, who caused the charges to be issued, attempts to prove to the jurists that that person is guilty. The defendants attorney attempts to persuade the jury and the judge that their client is not.
During the trail, the panel listens to both sides and is admonished to listen to the facts of the case. It is the jurist duty, when the lawyers finish their presentations, to decide whether they believe the state or the accused more. It is their job to try to dig through all of the talk and, sometimes, double talk of the lawyers, balanced by what the judge says and does to make sense out of everything.
For the average person, it can be a daunting and intimidating to be in this room with all of the ceremony and expensive suits and sometimes they feel sorry for the defendant. Sometimes all of this is too much for many people called from their normal days work to do this. This could be part of the bad side of things.
Getting on a jury is actually fairly simple. You will get a letter or post card from the county or State court asking you to come and offer yourself as a juror. The lists of these names can come from department of motor vehicles or from the voters registration rolls. You will arrive at a large room with many others, so bring something to read. You will then, usually, be asked to fill out a questionnaire.
The questionnaires have been written by the attorneys on both sides, They will take their copies of these and allow a court clerk to call several names to be taken into the court room. This will be the room where the trial you may be on will be heard. What happens next will be interesting and forms the basis of many of the complaints about the system.
For the next few minutes, a judge will address these potential jurors and then turn them over to the lawyers present. One from each side of this battle will ask each member of the panel to answer several questions, some of which will be based off of the answers they gave in written form. They will attempt to understand what you feel about the defendant and the crime they are charged with and their race, if this is a factor.
When sitting for a trial, the jury is not supposed to have any preconceived opinions, which, sometimes is hard to do. Many activists want to change this system so that the panel can actually ignore the law in order to bring a better decision, based on some sort of quota. Having normal people decide when other relatively normal people are tried is a system that helps all understand and follow the law better.
The way the courts work, with juries involved, are relatively straight forward. A charged person comes before the court with their lawyer. A prosecutor, who works for the State or government, who caused the charges to be issued, attempts to prove to the jurists that that person is guilty. The defendants attorney attempts to persuade the jury and the judge that their client is not.
During the trail, the panel listens to both sides and is admonished to listen to the facts of the case. It is the jurist duty, when the lawyers finish their presentations, to decide whether they believe the state or the accused more. It is their job to try to dig through all of the talk and, sometimes, double talk of the lawyers, balanced by what the judge says and does to make sense out of everything.
For the average person, it can be a daunting and intimidating to be in this room with all of the ceremony and expensive suits and sometimes they feel sorry for the defendant. Sometimes all of this is too much for many people called from their normal days work to do this. This could be part of the bad side of things.
Getting on a jury is actually fairly simple. You will get a letter or post card from the county or State court asking you to come and offer yourself as a juror. The lists of these names can come from department of motor vehicles or from the voters registration rolls. You will arrive at a large room with many others, so bring something to read. You will then, usually, be asked to fill out a questionnaire.
The questionnaires have been written by the attorneys on both sides, They will take their copies of these and allow a court clerk to call several names to be taken into the court room. This will be the room where the trial you may be on will be heard. What happens next will be interesting and forms the basis of many of the complaints about the system.
For the next few minutes, a judge will address these potential jurors and then turn them over to the lawyers present. One from each side of this battle will ask each member of the panel to answer several questions, some of which will be based off of the answers they gave in written form. They will attempt to understand what you feel about the defendant and the crime they are charged with and their race, if this is a factor.
When sitting for a trial, the jury is not supposed to have any preconceived opinions, which, sometimes is hard to do. Many activists want to change this system so that the panel can actually ignore the law in order to bring a better decision, based on some sort of quota. Having normal people decide when other relatively normal people are tried is a system that helps all understand and follow the law better.
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