Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/07/06 16:30

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:15:23 GMT, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:

>I wasn't asked any questions about my views on various legal matters
>during my jury service (this is in England).

Britain has "majority verdicts" where it only takes 10 jurors to
convict. Therefore the system can afford a couple of people who
nullify.


--

"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow

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