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08-04-2009, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by fluffy0000 View Post
That criticism has grown louder since a 62-year-old man who was wrongly convicted was released from prison last month. Toshikazu Sugaya served 17 years behind bars for the murder of a young girl. He said prosecutors forced him to confess to a crime he did not commit. He was freed after a new test revealed his DNA did not match that on the victim's body.
well they may find that a jury trail doesn't solve this either. A current project in the U.S. has been working to overturn these exact types of convictions and there have been 20 so far. Without the DNA evidence they were all convicted by a jury of 12.

The one flaw many Americans see with the "jury by peers" concept is that the jury members are rarely truly peers from the community. We haven't come up with anything better, though. Unfortunately I have sat on more than one jury with at least one of the aforementioned morons. Luckily for the defendant, the majority finally overruled the dunce in our midst. But sometimes it doesn't work that way.


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