Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all que...
by gte910h on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:44PM
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Why do you assume the Jury has no technical knowledge? Lawyers often seek engineers and technical minded people in voir dire for technical cases. Not subject matter experts, but a programmer or mechanical engineer has a high chance of being sought after by both sides.
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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all que...
by lawdawg on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:51PM
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you obviously didn't follow along during jury selection. Anyone with any software/engineering background was excused from the jury. The current jury has no technical knowledge whatsoever.
Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all que...
by gte910h on Friday May 04, 2012 @07:18PM
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Where did you see this? No, I didn't see that.
Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all que...
by dpifke on Friday May 04, 2012 @07:35PM
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A description of the selection process (by someone who was in the courtroom when the jury was selected) can be found here:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#U...
The judge specifically asked if anyone had software design experience; the two people who raised their hands were excused.
He later asked, "there are geeky types of people and people who are not into technology. If you are on a geeky end, could you raise your hand?" Noone raised their hand.
Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all que...
by coopdog on Friday May 04, 2012 @07:49PM
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Why on earth would he want non-geeks..
I understand there could be a bias, but on the other hand these people are making interpretations of the law that could have very large consequences for a long time. Self described non-geeks are going to have very little knowledge and potentially little care of those consequences
The judge should have filtered for bias in other ways