Edit: search bar research has shown that some jurisdictions make it very difficult to nullify. I don’t want to doxx my county, but if anyone knows a source for by county jury rules I would be grateful.
It’s for the county. I have no idea what it’s for or anything. Never had to do it before.
As a comrade, there many types of cases where being on the jury are an opportunity for praxis on both the side of nullification and going balls to wall for a conviction depending on whatever the case is.
It’ll be a major pain in the ass given the commute, but I’m lucky in that my employer pays me my full wage for days served on jury. So I really don’t have an excuse outside of avoiding the commute to try and avoid it. Especially since I could have an actual say and impact on something that matters.
I am well aware of how to avoid it, but does anyone have advice on how to get selected if it’s something a comrade should try and get on the jury for m / try and sus out what the case is before deciding whether I should try and get out of it?
I’ve heard they want the most bog standard, boring, ignorant people. You have significant knowledge of the law? Out. You have strong political opinions that you voice? Very likely out. So don’t appear terribly informed, don’t appear like you’re a progressive champion of justice. Act like you’re open to being fair to either side but not convinced of anything in particular other than the rightness of the rule of law going in, that you’re a blank slate. If it’s like a case about a cop shooting someone they’d for example ask your opinion on police and push out anyone who said ACAB or anything even remotely like that. If it’s about an oil company they’d ask you about energy and the environment and climate change and push out anyone too strongly negative on the industry. You have to appear to be a void, a robot willing to judge the case totally on the facts they give you and entirely according to the law they present to you. Someone without prior strong opinions.
So basically they want