"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 07:15 13-07-2002 -0400, Tom Beck wrote:
>
> >What we really need, of course, is smarter jurors. Yeah, right.
>
> What the US really needs is to get rid of the jury system and let decisions
> about guilt/innocence and decisions about financial compensation be handled
> by people who actually have a Law degree, instead of having those decisions
> made by a bunch of untrained amateurs.
I think we'd have to amend the Constitution to do that, and I don't
think that's going to happen. There's too much distrust of lawyers, for
one thing.
Trial by jury is a fundamental right in the US. It's not going to be
given up as easily as you seem to think by my reading of your post.
Julia
