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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: ``they'' vs *US*
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:04:48 EDT
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> Just one more thought, though: You seem to feel that the jury, being
> primarily Portugeese, might have been lenient with the rapists. Isn't
> it supposed to be a jury of your peers? In this case it was. If I'm
> ever tried for a crime, I would hope to be tried by computer professional
> types.
> Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 

     I was never sure just what they meant by that phrase - 'a jury of your
peers'.  Surely we wouldn't convene a jury of rapists to try a rapist,
would we?  Of course not.  Did the phrase arise in reaction to historical
practices of choosing a jury entirely from upper-crust types or what?  Does
anyone have any actual knowlege of this (or even likely sounding theories?)?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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