How is a jury selected? Why do they decide if someone is guilty or not instead of the judge?

Question

I'd like to know what's a jury's work and why are their veredicts so important.

Answer 1

Every person who is registered to vote can possibly be "called for jury duty." Being 'called' means they send you a letter, telling you that you must come to the courthouse on a specific date, day, and time. If you have a very good reason, you can send a formal letter to the Judge stating why you cannot appear.

A jury "pool" is then made. From that pool, both attorneys have the right to question each potential juror. Jurors have typically filled out very long questionairres with questions designed to find out your biases, experiences, and beliefs that each attorney feels will make you a good or bad juror.

Both attorneys can dismiss so many jurors "without cause" meaning they don't have to say why. Other jurors are dismissed because their answers show they cannot be, or may not be able to be fair.

Once 12 jurors (and alternates) are chosen, the trial begins.

In many cases, the defendant (the person who is in trouble) can choose a jury trial or judge trial.

Every defendant has the constitutional right to be tried by one's peers. Each juror has an equal voice in the process.

Why don't you do some research on the rest of your question and come back to tell us what you found out.

Lifes

Answer 2

A Jury is to be selected by a pool system in which the next people in the pool are called to the jury over the cases. That is not actually the case any more. As our judicial system as become the system of thiefs and more thiefs. Today lawyers hand pick the jury and try to pick a jury that will work the best for there case. This is called jury tampering at the least and should be a criminal offence. A jury is to be a group of peers that are nutural in a case. They are in affect the average people on the street. Lawyers in affect by selecting this person over that person are seeking people who can't think or who can't reason well. Thus removing the normal citizen from the jury. They do not want for example a bussiness person who from day to day deal with man issues at the same time. Because they see thru the bull of a issue and get to the meat of the problem. And they do not want a engineer because engineers will study the case for all possible events and why they are or are not possible. They are logical thinkers. So your jury of today is fixed. That is why OJ walked.
The jury in effect is the Judge when it comes to deciding the guilt of a person. A jury is not bound by the laws in a case they can rule anyway they want. A judge can remove a jury if he thinks it is tampered with or if he thinks they are not lisening to a case which is odd to say in the least. A judge is not the jury over a case he is to administer the proceedings. Most judges should be kicked off the bench today.
If we really wanted a real judical system we would have only jury cases. Judges should be done away with and a pool of judges should be used to oversee the courts. Or at least 3 judges per case should be used. And these judges by paid by the hour. Not a salary of a retirement system for the good old thiefs that practice law.

Answer 3

The accused person has a right to what is called a "bench trial" where a Judge decides their guilt or innocence. Having a jury of your peers is an option on Felony charges, or some misdemeanor charges above a Municipal level.
A Judge hearing your case is best when there is a technical argument which might confuse a jury and your lawyer decides it should be done this way.
If you want to sway the jury with emotional testimony, etc. that might dissuade them from finding you guilty even when you are, then you better have a jury trial.
It's all up to you as the defendant to call the shots, but trial by jury is another reason why AMERICA ROCKS!

Answer 4

A jury panel is selected by both the defense and prosecuting teams. Each side gets a set number of strikes - so if a potential juror is presented and either the defense or prosecutor thinks that person may not be an asset to the case, they can excuse that juror. Sometimes, it the evidence is particularly inflaming - like photos of a horrid murder scene, the accused may request a bench trial, where there is no jury, only a judge viewing the case and making the decision. A jury is important because they are suppose to view the evidence impartially and decide beyond a "reasonable" doubt for conviction or acquittal.

Answer 5

A jury is selected by the defense attorney and the prosecution. each side asks question of the potential juror and according to the answers they can request that the juror be seated( put on the jury) or rejected( wich actaully gets you put back into the jury pool for other possible trails, but that is another story)
You are selected for jury duty these days by your voters registration. it is how they know what city you would be eligable to sit on a juty in.
The reason that the jury is so important in cases is because it is in the Constitution. We have the right to a trial by jury to protect us from the governments ability to control peoples fate per say. if the judge had the only say in a persons guilt or aquital then all that it would take is for the government to seat judges that would do whatever they tell them to and we would all be under a dictatorship in no time.

Answer 6

Jurors are selected from a Jury pool, usually a list of registered voters. Prospective Jurors are questioned at the Voir Dere where the attorneys for each side get to evaluate and reject jurors they do NOT want sitting on their client's case.
After the jurors have been seated, the judge will use them to decide questions of facts. Did the defendant shoot the victim or no? Juries do NOT decide questions of law, only fact. Sometimes they will ignore the judges instructions and decide to ignore the facts because they don't want the person convicted, like O.J. This is wrong, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

Answer 7

The practice of the Jury trial started with King John, the Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood and all. The King was charging people of crimes and taking their land away. The nobles forced King John to sign a document called the Magna Carta stating that no person could have their land, freedom taken from them without being found guilty by a jury of their peers.

From there we find that the desire for a jury trial was one of the most important reasons for the revolution. After that is ended up in our Constitution and the 6th amendment

The rest is history

Answer 8

Jury is selected by random and then each prospective member is asked specific questions to ensure they are not biased in anyway. 12 who are not biased etc. make the jury. The corporation of your city etc. randomly sends jury selection notices to citizens and then when a court case comes up they will randomly pick people to be "tested."

Thier verdicts are important as they are a representation of the "society." They decide who is quilty or not guilty and the judge decides on the punishment. You only see jury cases for serious offences such as murder, manslaughter...., traficking etc. The defendant will always pick a jury and it is their right to choose but the lawyer will encourage them to do so. Reason - the defedant will hope to get a not guilty verdit by playing of the jury members emotions. This would not work on a trial by judge alone.

There you go!

Answer 9

A jury is selected from a "Jury Pool" that is created from a summons. A summons is similiar to a subpeona (an order from the court). They rec, your info from the state, DMV,etc. The narrowing of a jury from the pool is done by the haggling, if you can excuse the term, of the public defender and prosecutor. A verdict is the end decision reached by the jury after a trial phase. After the trial, the sentencing phase begins. You want a jury verdict over a judges decision because most judges are overly liberal IMHO and tend to politically grandstand from the bench, which...typically results in unfavorable results for the victim(s). I hope this helps

Answer 10

Because it is specified in the Constitution that we are to be judged by a jury of our peers.

You are thinking the USA is already the New World Order. We are not, as of now. But it will probably go that direction soon enough and then we can HOPE we have enough money to pay off the right people to keep ourselves out of trouble.