The big problem with how we pick juries

make it a blind selection. the jurors are behind a screen and the lawyers ask them questions but can't see them. When they started doing blind auditions for orchestras, the amount of women want from around 10% to 50%. The Judge can still see the jurors, and see if they are telling the truth or not, but the lawyers can't.

The Till case was/is truly disturbing

Emmet till was pistol whipped to death, his mom had an open casket funeral and invited the press to see and take pictures of what the men did. The pictures are pretty gruesome and graphic.

And people say racism is a thing of the past.

Just a note that the reason for reducing the charge to 2nd degree is that 1st degree murder requires premeditation and thus a higher burden of proof. By reducing the charge, they guaranteed a conviction.

I still don't understand,what was he thinking when he was shooting the young man 16 times?? Even when his body fell to the ground he still kept shooting.

The saddest part about this is that the woman responsible for emmitt tills death is still alive and living out her golden years in Mississippi as if nothing happened.

I learnt about the case of Emmett Till in school 11 years ago and it is still one of theost shocking and barbaric crimes I've ever heard of

Everyone seems to Acknowledge the PROBLEM but No one seems to know tha SOLUTION for the PROBLEM.

This week I was on jury duty. Initially, there were 50 of us. Only 18 selected to be interviewed as a potential juror for a jury of 12. So that if they excluded someone sitting on the jury box they already got 6 ppl as back up to fill any empty seat. It caught my attention that the 18 potential jurors selected "randomly" were all white or people with anglo last names. Not most but ALL. I truly believed in our judicial system until today.

A white Chicago police official shot a black teenager That didn’t age well

This seems awfully familiar

The Till Case reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird... I was literally seething with anger in English class

Why not remodel the process so that the lawyers do not see the jurors until the choosing process is over? This can be done by questionnaire or by any question answer process that prevents the image or sound of the people being chosen from being seen while the challenges are being issued. Theres no intrinsic information that we agree should be used that is gained from seeing and hearing the juror. If they say an answer that is alarming to the lawyer it would still be true if the lawyer had to read it through an all text format. Or finally lawyers issue questions and a third mediating party asks them and sends the answers to the lawyer in a textual format without speaking to them. Easy fixes that are feasibly done if this issue REALLY mattered to people

I never understood judging people by a skin colour, this is not the medieval times

I find it odd to let "normal" citizens be a jury, how can you trust that they will do it just? I mean some dude can just decide he doesnt like one person and just ignore the facts and vote as he wants.

The case of the murder of Emmet till was disgusting imo

RIP Emmett Till, we must never stop fighting the evils of racism

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