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To: Lane3 who wrote (53245)	7/7/2004 5:55:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793912

You recently posted about serving on a jury trial, and being amazed at how different you were from some of the other jurors. That's the way juries go. There are "bleeding hearts" and there are "hard-asses." The received wisdom is that Blacks and Hispanics are more generous, on average, while Asians more likely to find for the defense. Plaintiff's don't want young women if the plaintiff is a woman, or the defendant is a young man or a sexy man. True or not, the defense lawyers ALWAYS strike blacks and Hispanics. For big cases, the lawyers get specialists to help them pick. To get around that, the courts don't give you the jury panel until a day or two before trial. So the really big firms research the entire pool. Too rich for my blood. I pick jurors based on how they look at me, how they make eye contact. If they look mad, or off kilter, or unhappy to be there, I don't want them on the jury. I ALWAYS strike jurors who give me the hairy eyeball, regardless of race, creed or color.