Gaming and Jury Duty Discrimination?

[wingsandsword]

There have been some interesting articles that Law and Order and especially CSI have made it harder for them to explain the foresic evidence since people now think they know something about the science since they watched a program made for dramatic entertainment.

From what I've read, the "CSI Effect" was more of making juries expect forensic evidence, trust it deeply when it comes up, and have doubts about cases when there is none.

This was a double-edged sword, they expect it for fairly mundane crimes even when there is a mountain of other evidence. Defense attorneys can stand up and call out "where is the DNA? Where are the trace fibers? Where are the fingerprints?", even when there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence and it will make the jury have doubt. On the other hand, if that evidence exists, juries are very likely to believe it, and even if they have misunderstandings about how it's gathered and analyzed, when the forensic scientist gets up on the stand and says that the defendant's DNA or matching trace fibers or some other bit of forensic evidence was at the scene, juries consider that nigh infallible proof that he did it.

 

[Asmor]

Edit: Oops. Too late, mods called it before I realized! I should read to the end of the thread before hitting the reply button!

Good advice in general... I got a 3-day ban once for not reading to the end of the thread and continuing a discussion a mod had asked us not to continue. >_>

Hardest 3 days of my life, man.

 

[Kmart Kommando]

I got my jury duty check for $16.02 in the mail a few days ago. :\

Sat there for 2 days and didn't get picked or called up or anything. Just had to watch while several people who spoke perfect English pretend they couldn't understand English very well to get out of serving. While I had to sit there and not supervise my elevator modernization job.

The system is more broken than a Frenzied Berserker.

 

[AnonymousOne]

I'm not the type they want. Former Philosophy student, Now an Econ/History Student. Basically I'm too analytical for lawyers to be comfortable with me on a jury.

Couple that with my Classical Liberal ideals and Capitalist Idealism and I'm a big giant mess for a lawyer in the courtroom.

So does anyone think that me reading a copy of Atlas Shrugged will turn lawyers off?

 

[Tetsubo]

I'm not the type they want. Former Philosophy student, Now an Econ/History Student. Basically I'm too analytical for lawyers to be comfortable with me on a jury.

Couple that with my Classical Liberal ideals and Capitalist Idealism and I'm a big giant mess for a lawyer in the courtroom.

So does anyone think that me reading a copy of Atlas Shrugged will turn lawyers off?

I don't know about the lawyers, but you aren't likely to get many dates...