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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by chrischen on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:48PM (#14932117)
People can’t grasp complex matters and lawyers specifically choose the least intelligent easiest to sway and manipulate people to serve on juries.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by dgacmu on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:18PM (#14932370)
That's the kind of claim for which it's useful to have a citation. Because it's not generally true. This is an old study ('76), but they found that the jury selection processes biases against both high and low educational attainment, for example: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3053202?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

One of my friends just served on the jury for a murder trial. He's got a Ph.D.. From my recollection, at least two of the other jurors also had postgraduate degrees.

Remember that the jury selection process is managed jointly -- which somewhat naturally leads to the clipping off of people at either end of the extremes that the defense and prosecution are concerned about.

Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by 65827 on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:17PM (#14932829)
A study from 1976 might as well be from 976, we still ate humans and worshipped star gods back then.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by dgacmu on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:28PM (#14932886)
Even worse, Star Wars was 1977... In 1976, we were still worshiping Rocky Balboa!
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:50PM (#14932139)
Then I guess it is fortunate that neither the defense nor the prosecution get to just select whichever jurors they want without input from the other side.