Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:23PM
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I wonder if a form of activism here might be to seek out Jury duty as a way to make sure the Jury does understand. To be honest I have never even thought about walking down to the Superior Court building and saying "Hi, I'm here to volunteer to be on a jury, what do you have today?"
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by nicholasjarnold on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:51PM
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This raises an interesting point, but neglects the fact that it's not possible (for good reason if you think about it) to simply volunteer for jury duty. In order to be eligible in most (all?) jurisdictions one must simply register to vote.
Neglecting the fallacy of the presumption that one can just volunteer, it is interesting to think about the way the world might be shaped should "more educated" individuals be the ones who solely shape public policy and case law. It's not very democratic in the pure sense of the meaning, but certainly interesting as a thought experiment.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by ghaff on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:58PM
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>In order to be eligible in most (all?) jurisdictions one must simply register to vote.
I've seen states at least claim that being registered to vote is not necessary to be called for jury duty. It gets a bit hand-wavy after that but supposedly they also draw from, at least, driver licenses as well.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by 6502nerdface on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:42PM
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Simply filing state income taxes as a resident is enough to get you in the (potential) jury pool for your locality, at least in NY.