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Originally Posted by blueash
Almost all civil cases are tried on a contingency basis. The plaintiff's attorney takes all the risk and is not paid per hour. If you win, the lawyer gets a % of the verdict, if you loose, the lawyer gets nothing.
Jurors are not beholden to any special interest except hopefully justice.
Judges are mostly elected in this country unlike England. And elections cost money. When the insurance companies and the big polluters and big manufacturers use their influence to select candidates and pay for your campaign and election do you think that judge is going to be impartial? Give me a jury.
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I have met a lot of judges as the National Judiciary College is on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. They walk around there often especially in the book store. Judges seem more logical than a group of jurors. And it often seems to come down to how adept the lawyers are with their voir dire and how much the judge allows.
Better education in citizenship starting in elementary school would help a great deal.
My neighbor the law professor in Reno, Nevada used to teach at the National Judicial College as did some of my Philosophy professors. One of these Philosophy professors wives was the Librarian at the National Judicial College.
Home | The National Judicial College I have a BA in Philosophy and one in History from UNR and had started a dual MA or looked into it but decided on Librarianship instead after dropping out of Law School at Brigham Young University in 1982.