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Re:Apple versus Samsung: Jury foreman justifies $1bn verdict by eckyptang on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:32AM (#4459188)
And this is where the Jury fails.

A Jury is a forced consensus. They should have an odd number (so a draw is impossible) of independent jurers who do not communicate with each other at all.

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Re:Apple versus Samsung: Jury foreman justifies $1bn verdict by sbuk on Friday August 31, 2012 @08:36AM (#4459366)
The jury consisted of 9 people.
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