Articles written by Stan Long

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...