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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 01:13 AM EDT |
Because that would undermine the entire premise of requiring the jury to be
unanimous. You're basically saying the jury ought to be able to get to unanimity
by throwing out anyone who goes against prevailing thought.
You'll note that
extreme care is given to shield anyone outside the jury from knowing any detail
of where any juror is on any point of deliberation. If any amount of knowledge
about a juror's position in deliberation were found to be used in any way in
regards to a decision to dismiss them, that would taint the process and I'm
pretty sure would be grounds for a mistrial...
While it's certainly
conceivable that the two jurors getting dismissed may have had some impact on
how deliberations could go, they were dismissed for reasons entirely unrelated
to the details of their deliberations, and no one outside the jury has any
idea what the impact on deliberations would be. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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