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This legal system is a joke. Their fucking job is to be partial, and pass a literal judgement. Having done your research on Shkreli means you will automatically hate his guts, unless you yourself share his disregard for human life. The purpose of this legal system is to filter those baseline reasonable people out so that only the cursed ones remain.
It's designed so the ideal juror is :grillman:
It’s always been so weird to me that being knowledgeable on the person and situation in question disqualifies you from being on a jury
seriously, if you'd be unable to judge impartially simply for having read a news article about the guy, how could you ever be impartial in your judgement when you've heard the same story from his team of top-notch defense lawyers?
I think that's fair though. Media can spin things in ways that negatively influence a case, for example the central park five case.
I had an idea for a rpg once about a near-future society where jury duty lasts like five years. Like they lock you in a bubble village and cut off all your access to the outside world so that when you go to sit on a trial you have absolutely no foreknowledge of what it's about.