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Aren't juries usually ignorant yokels, though? I'm not saying the judges should have the power. Juries are necessary. That doesn't make them good at what they do. Just better than the alternative.
“Jury of your peers” aka the common clay as picked through by the legal teams. If memory serves, Marisa Tomei is the hot one in the room.
Marisa Tomei was an expert witness, if I understand your reference.
And would be the hot one in any room.
A jury consists of people who couldn't get out of jury duty.
The one time I wanted to sit on the jury, they dismissed me because I was a subject matter expert on the specific subject they were trying (and testified regularly before the court on the subject) and they didn't want me dominating the jury. It was a federal fraud case and I am a better witness than the feds had gotten, just I'm very, very expensive.
But I usually do state superior court. Federal district court? That was exciting. I'm still a little grumpy I didn't get seated in that one. I was even willing to promise to behave myself (and even willing to keep that promise too, federal court is different than state court)
not all, like voting, some of us take it seriously.
considering that in about...2/3rds of all US states, judges are elected and have literally 0 actual legal experience requirements...i would probably trust the jury more than judge in alot of cases