Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
by jliptzin on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:32PM
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I think at the very least there should be some kind of juror training process. You'd still tap people from the general public, but these people could maybe serve up to 5 year terms where being a juror is their full time job for that time period, they're trained in advance, they go through some kind of testing period, maybe shadow a couple other juries, and then they go on to serve on real juries. Obviously this would be a paid position much like a postal employee.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:48PM
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Besides being extremely disruptive to jurors' lives, you also have many of the same problems of an all-judge system (people becoming too close to prosecutors and wanting to the rule the "right" way, etc.) without the mitigation provided by the bar and full legal training.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
by zo1 on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:08PM
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Seemingly free and "just" governments have done much more "disruptive" things in the past, so there is precedent. E.g. Conscription and mandatory military training.
Edit: Typo.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:12PM
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So what? Does that make it a good idea?