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To: neolib who wrote (466420)	1/27/2021 5:53:10 PM
From: Doo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540836

I know of abuses like that, but I think they are rare. What I was referring to instead is that few jurors can figure out what a judge's instructions actually mean and how to apply the facts as they find them to the law as given to them. No reason to fault them for that short-coming. Why would they know how to do that? I went to school to learn how to do that, and spent years in practice really developing some skill in performing the task. I think there are plenty of examples of non-lawyers on SI thinking they understand a complex and nuanced legal issue, constitutional or otherwise, and rarely do they hesitate in proclaiming what they think they understand, etc. A little different than jurors in that those folks are trying to prove some point. Jurors just want to go back to work and to their families and get the heck out of the stuffy jury room. ;)