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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 hours, 44 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    That was precisely my point in another response on this thread. People with relevant experience are not permitted on juries.
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  • Posted by 3 hours, 51 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately that 'trial' wanted no one with any valuation experience on the jury, just people who disliked all things 'Trump.'
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 4 hours, 50 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    I was "excused" from all four cases (in three calls to jury dury) because I knew too much. What has to change about the jury system is the ability for lawyers to pick and choose jury members.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 hours, 16 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    I got called to jury twice. Once I was working in China and got excused. The second was a firearms ownership case and after I said I was a card carrying member of the NRA and believed in every Americans right to keep and bear arms, I was ushered to the door and that was the end of that.
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  • Posted by 6 hours, 30 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. City growth was pushing toward the land parcel. 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 using testimony from several real estate brokers and
    actual similar land sales nearby.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 6 hours, 50 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 1 day, 5 hours 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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