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Article #271Re: WiReD: just bad journalism re: Homolka info on Internet
From: Michael Gemar
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 02:16
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 02:16
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In article <CnD7tt.H8r@unix.portal.com> compata@shell.portal.com (David H Close) writes: >JWELLS@ARTSPAS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca writes: > >>With respect to the publication ban probably the most important difference >>is that in the Canadian legal system we don't lock up the jury as if they >>were prisoners. They're free to go home to their families at the end of the >>day and watch TV. They can even continue working at their job as long as >>they show up in court when they're supposed to. > >Bravo to Canada for this treatment of a jury. But both US and Canadian >systems treat jurors without respect for their intelligence. It is >folly to expect an intelligent verdict while insisting that a juror >cannot be trusted to follow instructions. The court instructs the juror >to decide based only on the evidence at trial. But if a juror cannot >follow that instruction, how can he return an intelligent verdict? Why then does the US sequester its juries? >If I were on trial, I would like the most informed jury available. Indeed, but what you *wouldn't* want was a jury having heard from your ex-wife all the terrible things you allegedly did. - michael
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