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He was convicted by a jury of his 'peers'.

My biggest problem with the justice system.

Do any of us really trust our peers?

Who would you prefer to be on the jury?

That's a much harder question and one I don't claim to have an answer to. It doesn't change the fact that I don't trust my peers. I don't trust your average American to be informed enough and educated enough to make decisions about my life. Jury of peers might as well be trial by mob.

Well, it's better than a trial by your accuser.

Not just peers, peers who didn't get out of jury duty.

Personally I think jury duty should just be mandatory (with the only exceptions being extreme circumstances) because it being so easy to get out of creates a major bias in the set of people actually doing jury duty.

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