"The way our jury system currently operates I think will have to be reconsidered".
Jurors change, and that is one of the great things about our jury system.
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Among other things, the trial showed how the jury system is open to abuse.
And there is still a consensus that whatever its flaws, the jury system is an effective one.
Mr Martins' solicitor, Paul Butcher, also said the verdicts were a great tribute to the jury system.
South Africa doesn't use the jury system and doesn't have the death penalty.
He criticised the jury system in England and Wales which does not allow alternate jurors to take over in such circumstances.
"This is no way constitutes fraud and instead makes a mockery of the whole jury system, in our opinion, " said Rubin.
How well, with or without consultants, does the jury system work?
He said the jury system depended on people listening to other people speaking, but young people were now taught with the help of computers and screens.
Although Malaysia no longer uses a jury system (findings of fact are made by judges), ordinary members of the public are still drawing their own conclusions.
As for Klebnikov family members, to their credit they are already taking the high road, thinking of what they can do to improve Russia's fledgling jury system.
The Guantanamo trial will be to a jury of 12 military officers none of whom lawyers, so where is the cross section of the community that is at the heart of our jury system?
This practice seems to have been brought to England by the Normans, and remained part of English law for centuries, although in practice it was gradually replaced by the slower but slightly less violent jury system.
The decision coincides with LDP resistance to efforts to allow a jury system in Japan, says Kohei Nakabo, the former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and now the chair of a committee to reform the legal system.
The other thing that happened is, I'm sure you know, in the legislative passing of Sarbanes-Oxley, the criminal penalties that they were talking about were bid up from five years to 20 years in a way that makes it just very risky, particularly in our jury system, for a company to be public.
Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading.
Meanwhile, in the two under-river tubes that cross between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center, PATH workers have jury-rigged a system of walkie-talkies and train-spotting staffers to get service there running at all.
If the bank refuses to file the form, it will demonstrate to the jury the unfairness of the system.
Declan Roche, a criminologist at the London School of Economics, points out that, with the exception of jury service, the judicial system is almost entirely undemocratic.
The idea underpinning a legal system where a jury is made up of one's "peers" is that court cases should be understandable to the average person.
In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
Even if there are any gains, these have to be balanced against the blow to justice and public faith in the criminal-justice system which denial of jury trials would represent.
On Sept. 15 The New York Festivals announced a new judging system, whereby Grand Jury judges are now allowed to flag a suspected scam ad by checking a box when viewing an entry online.
This type of dispute gets to the heart of the tort system: Should a jury be able to order a manufacturer to pay money to a sick plaintiff even though scientific experts dispute whether the manufacturer bears any blame?
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Wales' education minister says the "jury is out" on the qualifications system that Wales shares with England and Northern Ireland.
Last month, a jury found that Vonage's phone system infringes three Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) patents, and a federal judge said he would issue an injunction forcing Vonage to stop using the patented technologies.
The promise (made by lawyers to patients) of some major payout should the patient have some untoward effect of surgical and medical care (as offered by a greedy legal system in front of a jury of people who would rather be texting or working) has to end.
It's said that Joseph Pilates creator of the fitness system that bears his name jury-rigged exercise equipment out of bedsprings at the internment hospital where he was rehabilitating injured soldiers during World War I.
But other extradited Britons - including so-called NatWest Three banker David Bermingham, who was jailed for 37 months over an Enron-related fraud in a plea deal four years ago - have claimed the system empowers prosecutors as "judge, jury and executioner".
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