One of the most frightening experiences of my life was being
called to jury duty. I got to see what a 'jury of my peers' would
consist of. It gives one a lot of incentive not to get caught. (:-)
IANAL, but I see a problem in the future with technology-related
litigation. What good is the right to have your case tried before
a jury of idiots? For example, consider Intel v. NEC or Apple v.
MS & HP. It's hard enough explaining the concepts involved to a
reasonably intelligent judge, but a jury picked because they didn't
know anything?
I suppose that if a jury of people from Washington, DC can be found
who never heard of Ollie North, I suppose there's a jury for all of
us... (:-)
cris
*IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer. (But my wife is.)
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Well, I've never met RJW, so I don't qualify as a friend of his, but
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at Penn, so I'm definitely
educated and presumably bright as well (at least I like to thing so).
I was just selected to serve on a jury even though I mentioned during
the selection process that I was a PhD student. So I guess it's not
impossible.
Robert