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The importance of identifying dangerous jurors.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 How many times do we meet people with twisted if not dangerous ways of looking at life and processing information? Some sue the government to stop directing neurotransmissions at their brain functioning. Others are convinced the FBI and CIA are tailing them, even when doing so would be a complete waste of the FBI's and CIA's time. Others are racist. I meet all such people and more merely through potential clients who contact me.  One aspect of picking a jury is to get a sense of which jurors will have twisted and dangerous ways of processing information. Some may seem totally normal at first blush, until they start talking, so every potential juror should be asked at least one open-ended question, to get them to talk. Some will talk the talk very well...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).