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Some interesting thoughts. I've often encountered that in the past. At the local college of law, I once looked up faculty voting registrations. Out of 30 or so that I found, there was only one Repub, a new hire. And of course if you bring up the Second Amendment, the reaction is echhh...
Haven't been blogging because last week I had a complex case. And in the coming week I'm summoned for jury duty, and won't be able to talk about that until the trial is over. I noticed something amusing, though. Arizona has mandatory, repeat mandatory, retirement for judges at age 70. But jurors must serve up to age 75.
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Well, the judge must think for himself, but individual jurors have all those others to "help" them make their decisions. Everyone knows groupthink has better outcomes than individual thought, eh?
/sarc
..Well, there’s always the coin flip if confusion muddles the jurist mind. Best done in chambers…alone. Never, NEVER at the bench following a judge saying “ Well, lets just find out ….”.
….The dirty secret is that the judges can and do retire and then come back on contract to work until their Biden age. Double dipping. Keeping their hand in, so to speak. And since the Judgeship positions are finite, that gives another lawyer a chance to grab the ring. And another Governor a chance to pay back a political debt.
…Jurors have no such sinecure. They serve at the whim of the clerk.
In a proper system, no judge would serve continuously. In my system, like JAG, an attorney would be randomly selected to act a judge and another to act as prosecutor in each case, different persons in each instance. The defense attorney would be chosen by the defendant. There would be no "hired", long serving judges or DAs. Stop the need for notches on their guns to prove they "fight crime", another point I always vote against. I don't want someone who's "tough" on crime. I want someone who will seek justice. And I want folks in there who aren't trying to prove themselves to get reelected. In my state, I always vote against retention of judges just as I vote against incumbents.
They need the warm bodies - retired people often make up the juries because the have the time and many like the idea