Joseph, I can’t tell from your comment whether you have ever sat on a jury. YitzchokM said he has been in jury pools, not that he’s been on a jury. I sat on a jury in the Bronx in a criminal trial over 30 years ago, and most of my fellow jurors were decent people who wanted to do the right thing. My wife recently sat on a jury in Queens, also in a criminal trial, and her experience was similar. Presumably, neither the prosecution nor the defense is interested in jurors who are “the lowest of the low.” It’s also not clear to me how one can tell in a jury pool who’s “the lowest of the low.” It’s not likely that you engaged in conversation with such people.
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