Jury System

Even though most people believe that the jury system is a necessity to having a fair trial, I believe the exact opposite. I believe that the jury is made up of 12 people that have no clue what they are even doing there. Ben Shapiro, a writer from The Patriot Post once wrote,” The problem with juries is that they are generally composed of the 12 people stupid enough to get out of jury duty.” I say that if we want to keep the jury system around, we have to make improvement to it. We need to educate the American citizen about what they do at jury duty, instead of them just getting there and then having no idea what to do. We cannot just expect them to know, we have to tell them. American jurist seem to think that when they are called to have jury duty that it is going to be like all of those law shows they see on television, but that is never the case. According to Jennifer Dearborn, the writer of the web article “The case of Casey Anthon; Defending the American Jury System” from the Law Record, in the shows the person that has committed the crime is always found and put in jail, which is not always true in real life. This is known as the CSI affect. Another way that people can be wrong about the jury system trial process is that in a normal case, there wouldn’t be television cameras or microphones, the trial would happen and it would be done with. The problem with the Casey Anthony trial is that it was a “Show Trial”. According to the article “Should We Abolish the Jury System?” by Ben Shapiro, an American conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, attorney, and media consultant, wrote,
The phase ‘Show Trial’ now means something different- it means a trial that is a show. That’s precisely what O.J. and Casey Anthony were about. Every juror expects to see Sam Waterston get up and deliver opening remarks, and damned if the court system won’t do its best to provide that entertainment. The provisions of the Constitution that requires a public