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The whole jury system is pretty fucked up.
Personally, serving on a jury in a case that lasted more than a two weeks would be ruinous to me, and I know I'm not alone in this.
Lawyers don't want educated people as a rule, but people they can sway.
Then lets also take the idea of bias. If you want to find people who haven't heard of a high profile crime prior to being on the jury, you are not getting people who pay attention to the news. Hell, I couldn't give a rats ass about Jackson, and I wasn't even trying to listen to the news in general and I still knew the details of the case as presented by the media.
As such in most of these higher profile cases you end up with a bunch of idiots on the jury.
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