Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Jury system.

Y’know…. The American jury system has always been a rather interesting beast.

If it weren’t for this system, it would be incredibly difficult to decide who is deserving of punishment, and who is innocent of their crimes.

In the best case situation.

The jury system is honestly a flawed system, for many reasons. First off, it was made by humans. People fucking suck.

But past that, there’s the fact that, the jury system takes from a extremely large group, and whittles it down to a select group.

The parameters for this group are:

A. The jurors can’t make an excuses to get out of it

B. The jurors aren’t biased (or at least hide it well)

C. Can actually show up.

So… yeah. You know that stereotype where only the stupidest people in a jury group ever get chosen, as they fulfill all 3 of the above three parameters? Yeah. It’s mildly valid. Most people can find a way out by making an excuse, or can at least seem kind of polarizing if they REALLY don’t wish to serve.

Let’s be honest here. Trial by Jury can be a really scary term, but… having one person choose your fate is also pretty awful, and the worst would easily be phoenix wright.

Guilty till proven innocent? Awesome. I’d rather have trial by jury then have that kind of system in place. Play any phoenix wright game, you’ll see what I mean. If that was the alternative? It'd be cool, but Christ, i'd be scared to be accused of a crime.

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