r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/RRZ006 11h ago

The average person isn’t very bright or well read/educated and I have to assume juries skew downwards to some degree.

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u/The_Void_calls_me 10h ago

I mean there's a whole joke in that regard that juries are made up of people too stupid to get out of jury duty

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u/TerribleBudget 8h ago

And bored people and people who want to get out of a day of work if they are still getting paid.

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u/Gloomy-Welcome-6806 6h ago

Why would bored people go to jury duty? That makes no sense.

Why would someone want to get out of doing work where you have tasks and things to pass the time instead of doing the most boring thing imaginable and sitting there all day listening to debates?

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u/TerribleBudget 6h ago

Why would bored people go to jury duty? That makes no sense.

Because it's something novel and different?

Why would someone want to get out of doing work where you have tasks and things to pass the time instead of doing the most boring thing imaginable and sitting there all day listening to debates?

Clearly you like your job. Congratulations. I'm happy for you.

I'm actually fairly amused that I was downvoted for things that are true just because people can't imagine that other people live different lives and have different interests.

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u/Placesbetween86 10h ago

I hate to break it to you, but they actually don't. Juries are typically older and have higher income and education than the average American. Childcare is frequently claimed as a hardship that keeps people from serving. People whose kids are already adults but still healthy enough not to have a lot of health issues (40-60 range) are the most represented in our juries.