The Jury system in the United States of America
should be scrapped as soon as possible and in its place we must
establish professionally pre-trained and pre-selected salaried
personnel from whom the jury should be appointed by a Jury Overseer,
who will assign members of the jury to a particular case at bar.
Jurists should be properly schooled or educated to serve on jury
panels in any particular criminal matter, or any particular tort,
negligent act, fraud, liability, contract, etc. in civil matters.
Law students might be ideal jurors.
Juries should not be picked by the attorneys
who are representing the prosecution and the defense, or in civil
matters, the plaintiff and the defendant's attorneys. The attorneys
should be precluded from interfering with the appointment or selection
of a jury by the Jury Overseer in charge of appointing a jury
to the case at bar. The selection of the jury by the Overseer
must be the final authority.
It should not be a reason for disqualification
of a juror - simply because he has a prior knowledge of the case
at bar, by reason of having read about it in the newspapers or
having heard about the crime or tort on TV. Newspaper coverage
and disclosure should be encouraged, not suppressed. It
is part of the criminals lot that he and his heinous crime are
exposed to the society, that he has injured and to which he must
pay the penalty. Indeed the facts should be brought out into
the open, and be made to bear the shame. Publication of his rotten
deed is the natural outcome and is part of his natural punishment,
for having committed a wrong against his neighbor, countrymen,
and nation.
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