tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14345350.post1134689272275963299..comments2024-01-12T07:33:46.615-05:00Comments on Criminal Defense: Today I Become Juror 885My Law Licensehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487117416844299246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14345350.post-51296315081622023672012-05-09T00:17:38.011-04:002012-05-09T00:17:38.011-04:00Your willingness to serve as "Juror 885"...Your willingness to serve as "Juror 885" is admirable. However, how can you say that your personal experience as a criminal lawyer will not impact how you decide the case?<br /><br />Doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, who wind up on a jury are told that they must not rely on their personal knowledge or experience. Rather, they must determine the veracity of any expert witnesses as if they, themselves, were lay people who were unschooled in the medical arts. I think this is absurd. It is equally absurd to think that a lawyer--not just a lawyer, but an experienced criminal litigator--can put aside his training and whatever knowledge gleaned from years of practice, and become the proverbial "reasonable and prudent man."<br /><br />Another problem is that anyone who has tried a fair number of cases will wonder why an attorney fails to object when we think he should. We might also want to question the judge's rulings, grab one [or both] of the attorneys by the throat and tell them how to do a direct or cross examination, etc. In other words, we cannot pretend to be something we are not. How would you deal with that, in the unlikely event that you actually wind up sitting as a juror?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494576522906275360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14345350.post-86734216311261790112012-05-06T23:08:46.056-04:002012-05-06T23:08:46.056-04:00I vividly remember the personal injury lawyer that...I vividly remember the personal injury lawyer that was in my jury pool one day on a PI case. And he sat there and talked himself out of service.<br /><br />I wanted to reach out and throttle the guy.<br /><br />--E.T.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com