Forum (Forum & Focus)
Nov. 11, 2008
Lawyers Who Understand the Jury System Can Make It Work for Them
More often than not, the jury system really does work; and the lawyers who understand why it works will inevitably do better than those who do not, writes G. Christopher Ritter. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By G. Christopher Ritter Alexis De Tocqueville got it right when he noted 150 years ago that America is a country where virtually every issue - the intimate, mundane, significant, complicated and terrible - eventually makes its way into court. Once there, it is a strange system we have for resolving these problems. A collection of ordinary citizens, who appear to share very little in common, evaluate conflicting versions of historical...
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