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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by woodruffw on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:00PM (#29924169)
Impartiality in a jury trial context doesn't refer to the absence of biases (we all have them and truly getting rid of them is an impossible task), but a conscious effect by the jurors to discharge their office without prejudice, i.e., without allowing their biases to manifest as judgments independent of the evidence presented in court.

Put another way: there wouldn't be a point in deliberation if we didn't have biases. Our justice system trusts and (weakly) attempts to enforce the gap between those biases and prejudices that would actually interfere with the court's duty.

Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by jerf on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:15PM (#29924406)
And to put it another way, the job of a juror is to convict or exonerate the person on trial, not to convict or exonerate their own abusers by proxy.

Vulcans might not have a problem with this, but humans so obviously do that pretending otherwise is impractical.

Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by bcrosby95 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:55PM (#29925930)
I've served on a few juries. From my experience, the average person thinks its much easier to get out of it due to biases than it actually is.