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Our legal system amazes me. Only in America can a group of people with no legal background be forced to do the job that so many law students fail to do with live instruction by just reading a paper with law (the jury charge). Torts, for instance, is a two semester course in most law schools. Negligence encompasses all of one semester and often some of the other. Yet, the average juror is expected to learn the law of negligence and apply it to the facts presented to reach a just result in a few days. This almost seems like a joke. I suppose that this is where our forefathers created a fiction to avoid recognizing the fact that what people (jurors) are relying on is actually their intuition applied to the facts, not law. The argument that follows this point is that the appellate court can reverse if the losing party appeals and the Court finds a clear diconnect with the law based on the jury's verdict. Appeals are expensive, especially after taking a case through a jury trial....
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Posted by cjjenkins79 on 2009-11-03 14:14:11 | Rating: | Views: 17
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