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Everyone should know that, regardless of what the judge instructs, jurors have a right and duty to judge the law as well as the facts. Indeed, without that option the jury system would be rather pointless.
We should all embrace our duty to serve on juries as fervently as our right and duty to vote, maybe more so. If ever your future is on the line in a court of law, do you want it decided by 12 people that either have nothing better to do or are too stupid to answer the exclusory questions the right way?
I know people who have not missed an election in 40 years, but have managed to dodge every jury summons during that same period. How misguided is that? They won’t miss an event where their influence has a value of 1 in 12,000,000 and is no doubt diluted farther by gerrymandering, big money, and election fraud, but refuse to participate in one where their influence has a value of 1 in 12 and they have VETO power! If you have misgivings about the over reach of government power, over regulation, and the criminalization of just about everything, the jury box is by far the most effective tool available to an individual American.
How to get to be a juror:
First: don’t lie! Lying to judges is a very bad idea. However, there is nothing wrong with not reveling facts or opinions (unless they are pried out of you) that you think my not be in the best interest of your objective, or couching your answers to reflect what the lawyers want to hear. An example would be if one were being questioned in view of being seated on a jury in a trial involving some sort of firearms infraction. One of the Lawyers asks if you are a member of the NRA.
Your answer; if you want to be seated: “Well….ya, I did a little competition rifle shooting a long time ago. I bought a life membership because it was cheaper that way. I don’t do that anymore and I don’t believe a lot of what NRA does and says.”
Your answer; if you don’t want to be seated: “Absolutely! I’m a life member and regularly contribute. I support the 2nd Amendment.”
These positions can all be simultaneously true, but leave vastly different impressions.
However; by far the most important thing to remember if you want to be selected is to act as dumb as a box of rocks and as malleable as a six year old. That’s what lawyers want. All lawyers. And remember judges are lawyers too. I was always being excused until I figured that out. I started acting stupid and gullible and now I get seated every time. Ira Reiner, LA district attorney at the time, made a training video to teach assistant DAs how to select a jury. It openly stated that they should be looking for folks with a low IQ and a high degree of suggestibility. Lawyers do not want jurors who will take a thing and turn it over, look at all its sides, examine its content. If that seems counter intuitive to what you would want in a ‘justice’ system you need to understand that what we have is not a justice system it is an adversarial system that has been co-opted by the professional adversaries. To them the greatest possible tragedy is not that an innocent person be convicted, it is that the most brilliant lawyer could lose. It’s all about them. That mere laymen be allowed to interfere with their domain is simply unacceptable, and intelligent jurors make that a very real danger. Act dumb!
Please, consider sitting on every jury you can. I trust the American people and especially the general community of Cal-Gunners a lot more than I do the lawyers and politicians.
Our lawyers are of course excepted.
We should all embrace our duty to serve on juries as fervently as our right and duty to vote, maybe more so. If ever your future is on the line in a court of law, do you want it decided by 12 people that either have nothing better to do or are too stupid to answer the exclusory questions the right way?
I know people who have not missed an election in 40 years, but have managed to dodge every jury summons during that same period. How misguided is that? They won’t miss an event where their influence has a value of 1 in 12,000,000 and is no doubt diluted farther by gerrymandering, big money, and election fraud, but refuse to participate in one where their influence has a value of 1 in 12 and they have VETO power! If you have misgivings about the over reach of government power, over regulation, and the criminalization of just about everything, the jury box is by far the most effective tool available to an individual American.
How to get to be a juror:
First: don’t lie! Lying to judges is a very bad idea. However, there is nothing wrong with not reveling facts or opinions (unless they are pried out of you) that you think my not be in the best interest of your objective, or couching your answers to reflect what the lawyers want to hear. An example would be if one were being questioned in view of being seated on a jury in a trial involving some sort of firearms infraction. One of the Lawyers asks if you are a member of the NRA.
Your answer; if you want to be seated: “Well….ya, I did a little competition rifle shooting a long time ago. I bought a life membership because it was cheaper that way. I don’t do that anymore and I don’t believe a lot of what NRA does and says.”
Your answer; if you don’t want to be seated: “Absolutely! I’m a life member and regularly contribute. I support the 2nd Amendment.”
These positions can all be simultaneously true, but leave vastly different impressions.
However; by far the most important thing to remember if you want to be selected is to act as dumb as a box of rocks and as malleable as a six year old. That’s what lawyers want. All lawyers. And remember judges are lawyers too. I was always being excused until I figured that out. I started acting stupid and gullible and now I get seated every time. Ira Reiner, LA district attorney at the time, made a training video to teach assistant DAs how to select a jury. It openly stated that they should be looking for folks with a low IQ and a high degree of suggestibility. Lawyers do not want jurors who will take a thing and turn it over, look at all its sides, examine its content. If that seems counter intuitive to what you would want in a ‘justice’ system you need to understand that what we have is not a justice system it is an adversarial system that has been co-opted by the professional adversaries. To them the greatest possible tragedy is not that an innocent person be convicted, it is that the most brilliant lawyer could lose. It’s all about them. That mere laymen be allowed to interfere with their domain is simply unacceptable, and intelligent jurors make that a very real danger. Act dumb!
Please, consider sitting on every jury you can. I trust the American people and especially the general community of Cal-Gunners a lot more than I do the lawyers and politicians.
Our lawyers are of course excepted.
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