The Jury Of A Jury - 1507 Words

Jury Paper The concept of juries dates back to the eighth century. Instead of it being an impartial body of unbiased people, juries interrogated prisoners. It was not until the fourteenth century that juries would start to become what we know them today. About three million people are called to serve jury duty every year in the United States. On average only 1.2 million actually serve their request according to the American Bar Association. A jury is picked from a jury pool. The jury pool is made up of around sixty people. These sixty people are questioned and screened by both lawyers to weed out any that are to bias toward the subject of the case. The first part of jury is picking one person to speak for everyone, they are known as the†¦show more content†¦Juries in other countries are not quite like ours. In the United Kingdom they do not have a grand jury. If the judge or police feels that the crime is serious enough it is sent straight to a jury trial. Other countries su ch as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have started to adopt the concept as well. Other than this a jury trial is set up relatively the same as they are in the United States. Both sides are able to present evidence to a jury and the jury discusses and comes up with a verdict. A former New York judge, Sol Wathtler, once said â€Å"A district attorney could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.† (Hans, 2008). This is because a prosecution is able to get a jury to believe anything due to they are able to present evidence such as hearsay and illegally obtained evidence that wouldn’t be used in a jury trial. The defense is not allowed to be in the court when a grand jury is in session, that is the reason the prosecution is able to present that evidence. This is one major reason why many countries stopped showing cases in a grand jury. In the United States .027 percent of trial by juries are tried unfairly. That gives our justice system a 99.973 percent success rate a ccording to researchers from National Geographic (Hughes, 2014). In a case known as the Affluenza Teen; teenager Ethan Couch