Reply To: jury duty or "just following orders"

nfgo3

I served in NY.

I dont care how much time used to be wasted. The bottom line is I had to take off 3 days of work for a question session that took all of an hour and could have been done online!

However upon further reflection, there is a reason for this. The Judge and lawyers want sheep as jury. Sheep that dont have their own opinions, sense of right and wrong and that can be controlled (The judge in this case practically said this)

What better way to turn people into sheep than have them wait around for a day send them home have them come back the next day lots of standing around, lining etc etc until finally a few at a time are addressed.

you say

“and there is probably not a better one in civil societies.”

What makes you say this? The crime rate is higher than many civil societies, the incarceration rate is higher? In what was is our way better?

I have to say I agree with Joseph

Avram

“I think the “limited instances” are where the point is not true.”

so if My Rav says Chazir is Kosher I can eat it?

If he says Johns’ cakes are kosher not knowing that they contain lard (but I know) can I eat it?