-- At 12:09 AM 9/23/98 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Yet some of the apolitical numbskulls I know about have served on several juries in the same time. The Poisson, as expected, or something more human?
I have often read allegations of manifest jury rigging, but from highly unreliable sources. If juries are routinely rigged, then we would expect a high number of repeats, particularly in politically sensitive cases such as taxes, drugs, or organized crime. We would expect a drug jury to be composed primarily of people who have been repeatedly called for a drug jury previously. If juries are rigged, it should be easy to check statistically. Simply compare the number of repeats at a jury call with the expected number of repeats. 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 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. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 36kfZmqoLcEiOYb2EmT85BRIwhd8rlU2mEbg9tAo 423cg9OMSTWTZb0pVq0EhzhtObK62XbWKkGvWVSHk ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald