I hope so, too. I'm still waiting for the final word from the jury commission. I figure if I can't fight it on that round, I'll fight it on the next one - when people are called in to be interviewed for the case.
The US jury system is one of those things that looks good on paper but doesn't work out so well in practice. The Founding Fathers' intent was that everyone would be judged, not by the government, but by a jury of their peers. Fine, well and good - until a case goes more than a couple of weeks, and people are looking at seriously losing work time, family time, etc. Things get worse in the case of sequestered juries - that's when a case has gotten enough attention in the media that the jury is literally locked away from the world every night so they cannot see or hear any of the coverage and stay entirely objective. Put together a long trial and a sequestered jury, and you very often end up with a questionable verdict. The two most notorious cases of that were the trials of OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony. In both cases, the trials dragged on forever, the juries were sequestered and the defendants walked away scot-free - even though there was plenty of evidence that both were guilty. The jury rushed through their deliberations just to get out of sequestration rather than carefully considering the evidence from months of testimony.
I heard about the livehouse change! And as a result, the concert is no longer SOLO OUT. ~_^ Might be a better situation if it's a bigger and less packed venue.
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Date: 2013-06-26 04:41 pm (UTC)The US jury system is one of those things that looks good on paper but doesn't work out so well in practice. The Founding Fathers' intent was that everyone would be judged, not by the government, but by a jury of their peers. Fine, well and good - until a case goes more than a couple of weeks, and people are looking at seriously losing work time, family time, etc. Things get worse in the case of sequestered juries - that's when a case has gotten enough attention in the media that the jury is literally locked away from the world every night so they cannot see or hear any of the coverage and stay entirely objective. Put together a long trial and a sequestered jury, and you very often end up with a questionable verdict. The two most notorious cases of that were the trials of OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony. In both cases, the trials dragged on forever, the juries were sequestered and the defendants walked away scot-free - even though there was plenty of evidence that both were guilty. The jury rushed through their deliberations just to get out of sequestration rather than carefully considering the evidence from months of testimony.
I heard about the livehouse change! And as a result, the concert is no longer SOLO OUT. ~_^ Might be a better situation if it's a bigger and less packed venue.