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To: average joe who wrote (12540)	4/28/2001 9:04:22 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It's the pace and rhythm that surprised me, it is much slower than one imagines. I think that must vary a lot from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. When I went for jury orientation on Monday, I heard pretty much the same presentation as my previous trips. This time was a bit different in that the judge made a point of saying how different from Court TV it would be. The longest it's ever taken to select a jury was about three hours. And murder trials don't run past a few days. Every trial that I've experienced has been paced like Law and Order, not OJ. It would be interesting to see how something like OJ would have played out in a different jurisdiction. I hope that your experience with the justice system is constructive. Karen

To: average joe who wrote (12540)	4/28/2001 1:58:18 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Sounds typical. People wonder why lawyers draft thirty page agreements instead of two page agreements. All the time I hear clients ask "what I want to do is so simple, why are you making it so complicated?" Now with you I have another example to toss back at them. If the original agreement had been a properly drafted 30 pages, think how much time and money you would have saved. You're right. The public has been persuaded by TV shows that jury trials are exciting and fast paced. Most of them aren't. They're slow, laborious, mostly boring. The only advantage they have is that they're better than any alternative.