Hung jury!

a main problem with our courts is that they do not work.  Some people have literally gotten away with MURDER, while others have been helpless to defend themselves against bullshit parking tickets and skateboarding fines.  Too many people are doing too many bad things, and it's impossible to keep track of all of them.

So in bad criminal cases, the last thing we ever need is a hung jury.  If you didn't know, a hung jury is when all TWELVE jurors cannot reach a UNANIMOUS verdict.  There's no majority rule, everybody on the jury has to agree.  As if 12 people can ever be expected to agree unanimously on anything.  We couldn't even settle that Chunky Soup "fork or spoon" debate.

Try asking any 12 people the same question and see if you get the same answer.  You could go to a meeting of the World Jellybean Council and ask "Hey, are jellybeans GOOD?" and odds are that at least one guy would say "I actually hate jellybeans, I just joined this to meet girls."

The latest case of a hung jury is that of the psychopathic MySpace hootch who cut her boyfriend's head off and then shot him, and now wants to sell t-shirts from prison.  Most of the jury thought she should be given the death penalty.  But not all of them!  So now THAT jury has been dismissed and they have to find another one.  12 new people who have not been predisposed to the case.  12 individual Bugs Bunnys popping out of a hole in the ground all like "Pismo Beach and all the clams I can eat!  Say, what's this about a sex murder, Doc?"

It's the WAY they select the jury that slows everything down.  Nobody is allowed to have extreme views about capital punishment, one way or the other.  Nobody is allowed to be extra-religious.  Nobody is allowed to eat jellybeans in the courtroom.  They pick the 12 most boring, unopinionated people they can find, and then wait to see which side of the fence they happen to fall on.  Instead, I think it should be more like Price Is Right.  Don't INTERVIEW the jury prospects, just call them down at random and START.  Don't require that the votes be EXACTLY unanimous, just close enough without going over.  Price Is Right moves quickly, unlike the courts.  Everybody runs down the stairs.

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