Juror Bloggers
posted by Dave Hoffman
Anne Reed at Deliberations has a fantastic post up today collecting a large number of blog entries by individuals currently serving as jurors. Here’s one prospective juror that I certainly would not want sitting on my panel, were I trying a case as a defense counsel looking to suggest doubt:
I got summoned for jury duty this morning, and as I was sitting there I started thinking about commen sense. (By the way, there were not any cases for the specific group I was in, so I was only there two hours.) They said we should decide using our own commen sense. This is also a technical term that I have been reading a lot about recently, specifically Scottish common sense realism. This viewpoint had a great effect on the church in the last two centuries and affects how we do theology and how we read the Bible. But as I was pondering common sense, it seems that a postmodern culture is drifting away from common sense: they recognize that everyone has an angle and a viewpoint. Therefore, common sense actually isn’t all that common. So will the whole idea of a jury go away? In my thinking postmodernism doesn’t mix real well with a jury system. Of course, postmodernism doesn’t mesh real well with a justice system at all.
In any event, the entire post is terrific. Go give it a read.
July 12, 2007 at 2:04 pm
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Scott Greenfield - July 13, 2007 at 6:24 am
Anne’s posts at Deliberations are always terrific and highly informative. For any lawyer who picks a jury from time to time, Anne is a “must read” blawger.
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