From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:17:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Jury duty considered harmful, or at least rare
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At 9:12 PM -0500 9/23/98, James A. Donald wrote:
> > 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

At 09:52 AM 9/24/98 -0500, Petro wrote:
> No, no, On the contrary, far too easy.
>
> There are certain people who are NEVER called to jury duty,
> people convicted of felonies & etc. simply put the name of
> an undesirable on this list, 

The number of identifiable undesirables is too small to
guarantee the desired trial outcome.  To ensure a desired
outcome it would be necessary to screen out a very large
number of potential undesirables.  It would be much easier to
screen in a small number of desirables.

> > and simple statistics would show this up.

> If anyone were to look.

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