Make the McKenzie Connection!

Articles written by Stan Long


Sorted by date  Results 1 - 1 of 1

  • Protecting voters' right to choose their elected officials

    Stan Long|Oct 24, 2024

    Almost everyone understands why friends and relatives of the parties facing a jury trial are not allowed to be jurors for that case. The full list of rules that prohibit tainting a jury verdict with conflicts of interests is comprehensive and designed to promote public confidence in the justice system. The rules are strict; an interest in just one of the questions to be decided by a jury requires a Judge to disqualify the ‘interested” person from serving on a jury. By parity of purpose and parity of reasoning we should expect a local government...