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sounds_sound · 1574 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why a Court Overturned the Death Sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
I was on a jury in 2006 for a domestic abuse case. They intervewed the jurors, dismissed one I think, and then accepted that replacement. The selection took about an hour. For this Tsarnaev case they interviewed 256 people which is insane. At that rate I would guess you get both bogged down by the sheer number of people, but also by the minutiae of each persons differences thus leaving a larger hole of subject matter for the other side to fit an appeal into. I think peer selection still has a place in the process but it sounds like in this case they were doomed from the start.
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