I'm not actually sure it will take too long. As I understand jury selection in the US (although it varies a bit by state), you have two types of rejection - strike for cause, and peremptory stri… (View Post)

I think you're under a misapprehension about what jury vetting involves in the UK. The defence or prosecution get a jury list and can apply to the judge to have someone disqualified, but it'… (View Post)

People aren't disqualified from being on a jury simply because they have read or heard things in the past about a case, including things alleged victims have said. Indeed, some cases are so noto… (View Post)

As a general point, although clinical trials with a placebo are rightly seen as a gold standard, there are a lot of trials that don't have one due to the ethical issues. Principally there can be… (View Post)

Musk comes across not so much as a man leaping to the defence of someone wrongly accused, as someone rehearsing his lines for when it inevitably happens to him. (View Post)