From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:05:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: democracy?! (Re: Terrorism is a NON-THREAT (fwd)) (fwd)
Message-ID: <199710311303.HAA24618@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 02:57:51 -0600
> From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
> Subject: Re: democracy?! (Re: Terrorism is a NON-THREAT (fwd)) (fwd)

> Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> > Juries are supposed to be composed of your peers, not who the prosecution or
> > defence believe will best support their case. It should be that the first 12
> > poeple called who don't have a valid excuse to be excused are the jury, the
> > next 12 are the back-ups.
> 
>   You're way off base here, Jim. As a matter of fact, the government
> goes to extraordinary lengths to make certain that we get a jury of
> our peers.

No, I just hit a home run. The fact is that if the defendant is facing a
charge that can result in the death penalty *NO* juror will sit on that jury
who will a priori eliminate the death penalty as a potential verdict.


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