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THE JURY:

is a group of laymen juces right no permanents, judging on facts and give a verdict of innocence or guilt, a verdict which, in first case, closing the penal power of the state and, second, allowing frees one or more permanents judges, professionals, apply a penalty (Goransky, p. 113)

The best argument the institution of trial by jury that the author gives us, in my opinion, is one that says: is not that lay people are right more just to issue a ruling that legal experts, but only have to suffer punishment for a crime because the person whose guilt is made evident to the same intelligence and common sense natural legal persons elected from among the people.

Killing Time

This movie is a girl of color 10 years Tonya, who is brutally attacked and raped by two white men in Mississippi town of Clanton. Prior to the trial, Tonia's father, Carl Lee, the assassin. Jake Brigance, a young lawyer, takes Carl Lee's defense to avoid being executed in the electric chair.

Here I give an excerpt from the film A Time to Kill based on the book A Time to Kill by John Grisham.











This is the translation of my favorite Grisham's original book for que puedan apreciar el proceso de selección de Jurados en EE.UU

(...) Jake spent the next few weeks preparing for trial. Had an important job: to find the best judge to judge Carl Lee.

Together with its partners, Jake studied the list of names trying to decide which were best suited to choose from. Knew Buckley, the prosecutor would seek to empanel a jury, composed exclusively of white people find a car read guilty.

(...) The jury selection process was an arduous and complicated. One hundred and fourteen people were called to meet its citizens work. The first twenty were rejected it have partial burning crosses burning in their gardens. That still left 94 jurors.

Each lawyer had right to interview each prospective juror. Buckley began with a list of 100 questions. (...) Jake had a difficult task after interrogation three hours of the Prosecutor. His first question showed that he wanted to simplify things: "Ladies and gentlemen, some of you believe that Insania defense should not be used in a murder trial?"

potential jurors looked at each other, some seem confused. Jake looked at carefully, he knew that many of them looked shocked, but I also knew that at this time each prospective juror if his client was thought might be insane. He had already planted the seeds of insanity. And decided to terminate the interrogation.

(...) Now that the list of potential jurors had been agreed, the next stage of selection could begin. The judge and the lawyers left the room and went to the judge's office. Noose, the judge looked at the lawyers and said:

"Gentlemen, are you ready?. Well. As this is a case of homicide each of you has the right to reject 12 potential members offered by the other party "(...)

(...) When the final jury was chosen, and the Noose lawyers returned to their places. Your honor named aloud the names of the 12 jurors and they were slowly toward the jury box . Ten women, two men, all white. People of color in the courtroom looked at each other puzzled.

"Tell me: is this the jury that you chose?" I asked Jake ... Carl Lee

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