[kjam22]

I would look to go strictly with medical and forensic experts at this point.

Yep, and common sense, and our own personal experiences etc. One thing about it... both sides are going to have their own experts in court. I was a foreman on a murder trial, and we convicted him of murder 1 and gave him life without parole. Part of the jury instruction says a jurist should weigh all of the evidence and use their own experiences and common sense and judgement to decide who is telling the truth and who isn't.

[chris37]

That is not an easy position, that is not an easy thing to convict someone of, and that is not an easy sentence to hand out.

I think that the meticulous weighing of evidence is where the purest justice comes from. Jurors have a spectacularly important function in our justice system.

When I am summoned for jury duty, I don’t get upset about it, I don’t look to get out of it, I take it seriously. Although 44 years old now, and I have not been selected to serve on a jury yet.

[DiogenesLamp]

Yep, and common sense, and our own personal experiences etc. One thing about it... both sides are going to have their own experts in court. I was a foreman on a murder trial, and we convicted him of murder 1 and gave him life without parole. Part of the jury instruction says a jurist should weigh all of the evidence and use their own experiences and common sense and judgement to decide who is telling the truth and who isn't.

How would a racially charged jury (such as at the OJ Simpson trial) figure in to the results?