i'm Nevin from Sunnyvale California
hi this is Jim Bliss from Minneapolis Minnesota how you doing
pretty good
good um i guess the topic is trial by jury and how we should change that or how how we would change it um i'm ready whenever you are
yep
hum
okay
so uh what are your what are your thoughts on the subject there
well i definitely think like decisions have to be unanimous
yeah
yeah i think that's probably a a good thing
it's probably the safest thing
yeah i mean it's to to easy to get a quorum and simple majority won't do
yep i
no and even even like you know two thirds majority i mean
yeah that's yeah quorums are to easy to get and there's always that that chance that one or two people could be playing devil's advocate for a good reason you know so it's it's yeah definitely
yep
yeah
but um i don't know it i could i couldn't believe they suggested that judges should be doing the sentencing
yeah like gives gives them a little too much power
yeah that i i know of a couple of people at least who would be arguing with that or arguing against that pretty vehemently but um
plus you know you may be you know doing a you know a a guilty verdict but it may not be you know may be for technical reasons
yeah about the only good thing i would see about that is that would it that it would um hurry the process up a bit
yeah
but i mean even now we've got i know we've got plenty of cases out there where people have been wrongly convicted and things like that
i know what i
and that's what the trial by jury i mean jeez if it if the judge was doing it himself without any checks and balances
yeah it to be there'd be much more of that
whose to say
yeah no doubt
are you involved in the legal system at all
no but i tend i tend to follow it just to
okay
just to know what's going on
yeah yeah i've got some friends that are lawyers so
yeah i do too so
one of them just got his law degree
but um to tell you the truth i'm not real familiar with um
the system of jurisprudence jurisprudence the way it is right now i really haven't studied it in depth
no
yeah i know a little more about civil cases when than criminal cases which is it's more in how you present it versus you know who's right
yeah
i'm sure of it because a lot of those things it's all it's in it's largely a matter of viewpoint and who can argue their case better
yep
um it's kind of weird
i don't know yeah i always think about watching the People's Court or something
and how weird those cases get
i know
it's just
when i was uh couple of years ago involved in some pretrial stuff and like you know you go say okay we can't bring up this point because then they're gonna you know the opposition will say this this and this and
yeah
um-hum and it's like boy the stuff that they can twist around is it's pretty amazing
yep
and it's like the the truth really isn't important anymore it's
yeah it's not
and then you get people who who bring in cases just because they want to bring them up just because like this this friend of mine's pretty obnoxious and he really gets into suing people
yep
and so he'll he'll sue just about anybody just for the chance to get into court and argue his case
you know it's like
that sounds like a little abuse of our system but
it is it's it's wasting people's time and the taxpayers' money and everything else but uh
yeah but it's for the more general people don't want to take responsibility
yeah
you know that's a
and uh and and most of the time they're looking to place blame um
yep
and stuff see you're from California is that right
uh yeah well originally Chicago but
hum
oh okay i was just thinking i wonder i wonder how how the civil system or the the court systems differ between there and say where i am in Minneapolis
i mean from what i understand it's all pretty much the same except when you get to Louisiana
i i really
and Louisiana is completely different cause it was based on the what is it it's based on common law and the rest of the country is not or something like that it's pretty strange
oh
yeah
but uh
fortunately i never have had to go in even even for jury duty
yeah i haven't either other than
but um
that friend of mine's telling me that i might have to go in for uh as a witness he may subpoena me
so we'll see what happens
but uh
yeah i'm not really sure how we could change the legal system to make it better i
yeah it's there are too many big problems you know there's there's such a backlog of court cases right now
i know
you know to try to get them all in in a good time
and we already have too many lawyers as it is
yeah and if it's criminal cases we you can't put them in jail because there's no room left
yeah
yeah that's true and in fact they're even letting some go i'm i'm originally i'm originally from Florida and it's like it seems like every year they let out more and more just because they don't have room for them
yeah
um
you know that's not a that's not a good solution either
not at all
so i'm not real sure what to
