I’ve only been called once, and it was quite clear to me that the evidence they expected to present was shaky and circumstantial at best.
I took great pains to get myself excused, because I did not believe I could be impartial - ‘Not guilty’ means exactly that, the absence of proof of guilt. The state just didn’t have the goods, IMHO, and I’d have been forced to vote not guilty as a result - even if I thought the person did the thing they were accused of, the state wasn’t going to be able to prove it.
Wasn’t feeling being the ‘debating people who don’t understand the threshold for guilty’ part.
After the experience I had the one time, I’ll try to get kicked out of any and all jury trials. Also, my politics have moved quite far left and I couldn’t in good conscience contribute to someone being locked up without a hell of a lot of evidence of truly terrible harm.
I’ve only been called once, and it was quite clear to me that the evidence they expected to present was shaky and circumstantial at best.
I took great pains to get myself excused, because I did not believe I could be impartial - ‘Not guilty’ means exactly that, the absence of proof of guilt. The state just didn’t have the goods, IMHO, and I’d have been forced to vote not guilty as a result - even if I thought the person did the thing they were accused of, the state wasn’t going to be able to prove it.
Wasn’t feeling being the ‘debating people who don’t understand the threshold for guilty’ part.
After the experience I had the one time, I’ll try to get kicked out of any and all jury trials. Also, my politics have moved quite far left and I couldn’t in good conscience contribute to someone being locked up without a hell of a lot of evidence of truly terrible harm.