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"How does giving [class] [special legal privileges, based entirely upon their class membership] create special classes of people who get legal privileges based on skin color?"
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It's less objectionable if you offer it to everyone, I guess. But it's still an offensive idea because it's predicated on different groups of people being incapable of judging each other fairly; you could be advocating for race-specific legal systems with the exact same arguments. I mean the foundation of the idea is that your peers of different ethnicities aren't really your peers. Ignoring that, even if it were implemented wouldn't fix the problem - assuming it works as you think it would and the different "sections" cancel each other out all you did was generate a bunch of mistrials. I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of monitoring, like if the racial makeup of juries in a given county differed wildly from that of the eligible population some kind of evaluation happened, that'd be fine. I just don't think racial quotas for juries would be effective enough to justify perverting such a major part of the legal system. quote:"Whoa whoa, it's just coincidence that you're being judged by an all-white jury who hates you, I didn't even notice! Maybe you're the racist who is obsessed with color, hey?" Anecdotally, when I did jury duty (black defendant, DV) all four of the black potential jurors that were called up got themselves dismissed on purpose by ranting about the system or the police until the judge told them to shut up. Probably because the pay was only $15 a day.
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