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How about "Professional Juries"?

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An old man first mentioned this idea to me back in the 1970's.

He was a rather intelligent guy but I didn't agree with him on this one.

Today, I think his idea should be considered.

I will elaborate later because I have the unfair advantage of nearly 50 years of consideration.

What do you think of paying a group of people to sit full time in juries?
 
The jurors are not the problem with our justice system
 

No. Juries must be juries of our peers.
 
Then they would be judges.
 

This is a dumb idea. It is in fact so ****ing dumb that I am having trouble figuring out where to start with it's idiocy.
 
I realize that what you say can open a can of worms, but..something does need to be done with the jury system. I've always felt that (Partially)
juries are more about luck than anything else. I mean, you have a group of people that are a mixed bag. They are asked questions first, which means
the savvy ones know just what to say, and then there's ones that couldn't be fair even if someone paid them to be.
Actually, it seems that with all the modern research done on the mind, a better way could be found. I'm talking about Brain-Waves-Scan which is somewhere around 98 percent
accurate. Yeah, it might sound silly but put the accused on some type of scanner and find out what REALLY happened that day or night.
That may sound like SI-FI but it would certainly beat the lousy way we do it now.
 
The jurors are not the problem with our justice system
Perhaps juries are not the problem, but they are a problem.

Rednecks can not get a jury of their peers in Chicago or Baltimore.

Nothing President Obama could possibly do would be punished in Chicago due to the fact that the jury there would be afraid to find him guilty.

Not to mention how many racists were set free by juries in Mississippi.

The current political reality makes it very difficult to find impartial juries anywhere.

In our more elite areas, some jurors feel sorry for drunk drivers who look like their own children.

Our most expensive lawyers hire a specialist to screen the possible jurors.

Black men, especially large black men often get a poor deal in areas where there are few large black men.

I had expected both sides to have pro and con thoughts as to using Professional Jurors.
 

How would a "professional" jury work and how would it avoid the same issue juries have now?

What do you think a professional jury would have looked like on Jim Crow Mississippi? (One of your examples)
 
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