At 9:12 PM -0500 9/23/98, James A. Donald wrote:
To rig a jury by excluding undesirables such as Tim May would be far too laborious. To rig a jury it would be necessary to
No, no, On the contrary, far too easy. There are certain people who are NEVER called to jury duty, people convicted of felonies & etc. simply put the name of an undesirable on this list, don't release it as a _list_ of "criminals", and no one will complain. After all, who complains about _not_ being called? Then, as you screen jurors who have recieved summons, you simply add the most extreme to the list. Others aren't a problem because they show up, and are dismissed. It's hard to do all at once, but they have all the time in the world.
include only desirables, thus the pool from which the jury is selected would be vastly smaller than the official pool, and simple statistics would show this up.
If anyone were to look. Security thru obscurity works until someone looks at it. If no one thinks to look tho... -- petro@playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy. petro@bounty.org-----for everthing else. They wouldn't like that. They REALLY Economic speech IS political speech. wouldn't like that.