Lawyer Tricks: Jury Trials

lawyer tricks: Many lawyers extoll the jury as a sacrosanct tool that ensures common sense and community values are represented and applied in our legal system, according to NOW Magazine. The problem is that many people values and common sense are, knowingly or not, touched by racism, sexism, unfair beliefs and other irrational forces. Jury trials are less predictable, more expensive and create real risk that the law will play second fiddle to the jury collective version of justice. In many ways, a civil jury trial is more similar to a mini political campaign than a rigorous exercise of applying the law to the facts of a particular case. And lawyers know it. Juries are generally more easily persuaded by appeals to emotion, lawyer tricks, and bias than are judges. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.