July 09, 2009
Plan for anonymous jurors is bad idea
What’s next? Perhaps jurors will be hidden behind a one-way mirror. Maybe they’ll hear evidence via closed-circuit television or an online stream and render their verdicts by e-mail. An advisory committee to the Virginia Supreme Court has proposed making jurors anonymous in all criminal jury trials. The jurors would be referred to by numbers instead of names.
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