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  • Posted by 0 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for sharing that, jb.
    I have only had one experience as a juror.
    Out of about 100 prospective jurors interviewed by the lawyers, I was chosen in a trial to determine the amount of damages owed to a land owner by the local utility who had used eminent domain to seize an acre of land. A previous trial had already determined that the utility had not fairly compensated the land owner.
    I think I was chosen because I had worked for some years in land development, and I was the only one on the jury with any such experience.
    The utility had offered about $4,000 for the acre of land (for a sub-station, iirc) which fronted on a 4-lane road about 2 miles from the center of a small city. The utility used a comparable value equivalent to an acre in flood plain with no road access. The fair value was determined in the trial to be about 75 times that offered amount.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 20 minutes ago
    The author is definitely right about the jury system being involuntary servitude. Every jury (three total) that I have been called to has been a civil medical malpractice case or one in which an electrical contractor's non-English-speaking employee sued the customer for shocking himself while working on faulty wiring. Well, duh, the faulty wiring was why the contractor was called out (after a lightning strike has caused damage).

    We have too many lawsuits in this country. Non-patent lawyers are like locusts feeding on productive citizens like us.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 23 hours, 13 minutes ago
    Casey may be on to something here, but I wonder what his privatized "justice system" will be like after it becomes as bought and corrupt as the government version.
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