Jury System Dbq Essay

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Is the jury system a good idea? Many will say yes, and a few like myself will say no. At first I believed, yes a jury system is a good idea, it’s lasted us this long so why should there be any changes to it. Then I read this DBQ and it changed my mind. So first of all, most jurors are non-reliable, a lot of them can be biased and not even care or pay attention to the case they are assigned to, and lastly we have living proof on why we should get rid of a jury, and that is the Casey Anthony case.
So the first reading that convinced me having a jury system was a bad idea was document F. This was a passage from a book called Roughing It by Mark Twain. He talks about a murder that happened in Virginia and how a prominent banker and valued citizen was denied to be on the case because he knew about the case beforehand. This circulated in my head and did not make sense to me, the jury would rather be full of unvalued citizens who have no …show more content…

Although it is a cartoon, it is a really accurate image of what most people on juries can be like. The first cartoon is a jury full of people and how their minds are wandered off onto other things rather than the case they are assigned to. This may not be true to everyone who has ever been on a jury but it is a problem that I’m sure most juries have. When was the last time anyone has ever been excited to be on a jury? In my experience being on a court jury was a bad thing, it was forced upon and the people that had to go wanted to do whatever it took to get them out of there as quick as possible. So why should we rely on the decisions of people who don’t even want to be there? In the same document, cartoon two, it says “we, the jury, find the defendant to be as guilty as he looks.”, this really shocked me because I never really gave a thought on what if a jury is biased or judgemental. It is a possibility that many courts face and it is unfair to those involved in a

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