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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (38610)	3/16/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Neocon - I'm not a bit surprised. Mark Twain lamented the blatant weaknesses of the American Jury system a long time ago. In his day, it was newspapers that carried news to the masses. Anyone who had read anything about a case in the newspaper was considered "tainted", and therefore ineligible to serve on the jury to judge that case. Twain lamented that this bizarre rule eliminated the possibility of anyone with intelligence of serving on a jury. Twain felt that intelligent and concerned solid citizens kept up on current news by reading the newspaper. Nothing has changed since then, except that lawyers have became more scientific in their quest to keep intelligent people off juries. Our current system of trial by [dim, ignorant people on] jury duty is itself a travesty of justice.