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Jury systems...
Authored by: PJ on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 01:46 AM EST
What I think they should do is have special
juries made up of all geeks. The idea of
juries is that they can't be bought, because
it's a random selection, at least in the
sense of picked on the day.

Judges? it's possible, although rare.

But it makes no sense to have nongeeks decide
issues involving a lot of tech. They wouldn't
have to be specialists in a certain area or
knowledgeable about patent law. In fact, it
is way better if they don't know about it at
all, as you saw in the jury foreman instance.

But it certainly would have been good if that
entire jury knew enough to offset his unfortunate
"expertise" which was legally wrong in some
particulars but which they couldn't identify
as such. The only one who even tried to
stand against him was the young dude, the
gamer, and I think the reason he could do
even that much was precisely because he was
a gamer and young enough to not be intimidated
by tech.

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