no dictionaries allowed
hello, can one of my radical lawyer-type pals (sarah, katya, scott, seguin, anyone, please chime in here…) please explain the rationale behind what seems to me to be the hideously anti-democratic and backward rules made by judges for juries? more specifically, A had jury duty yesterday, from which she was dismissed and the judge told the potential jurors that they couldn’t ask questions and couldn’t get info from any other source than what they saw and heard there in the courtroom. They were told they could not even look up a word in the dictionary. how whack is that?!!
