So, for my day's token attempt to return to normality ... might I suggest that efficiency and consensus are not supposed to be the ONLY goals of the jury trial? Surely one of the points of having a larger group is that it's supposed to be a bit more difficult to persuade more people that someone has committed any given crime. That the system is theoretically supposed to err on the side of releasing the guilty instead of imprisoning the innocent, and that a somewhat more unwieldy group increases the odds.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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