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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (48199)8/1/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
And of course you consider yourself more intelligent than most jurors. Let's see.

I agree that the jury system is as defective as the stupid people on them. This is not correct English. "Them" has no antecedent. But only stupid people would write incorrect English, right?

I have seen several interviews of juror's and there reasoning was absolutely ignorant. Why is "juror's" possessive? Seems a problem. And shouldn't that be "their" reasoning?

They
didn't like him so he must have been able to commit the crime is what transpired in
there mind even though they didn't know that.

I don't know where to start in criticizing this sentence. "There mind" is singular even though there are 6 of 12 jurors. Transpire is used incorrectly. The antecedent of "that" is unclear. And that's just the grammar; the content of the sentence is nonsensical.

Enough. I won't go on. The fact that a criticism of juries is couched in such illiterate terms gives me additional hope for the jury system. And BTW, in case it matters, which I'm sure it doesn't to you but may to others, I have argued cases before a variety of juries and I have never dealt with a single jury that wasn't conscientious about carrying out their duties, even when I disagreed with their conclusions. (And the OJ jury, also BTW, reached what I believe was the wrong conclusion in truth, but was the right conclusion in law given the way the case was presented. That outcome was not a jury problem, it was a judge and prosecutor problem.
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