@Wsmom wrote:
@hckynutjohn , Here's one of those instructions for you:
"You should use your common sense and experience in deciding whether
testimony is true and accurate. However, during your deliberations, do
not make any statements or provide any information to other jurors
based on any special training or unique personal experiences that you
may have had related to matters involved in this case. What you may
know or have learned through your training or experience is not a part
of the evidence received in this case."
That type of instruction may not have been given and may not have been given in any trial you were a juror in; where I worked that was a standard instruction for every trial.
@Wsmom
Not sure these were the same instructions we were given on the juries on which I sat. Your font is too small for this old man's eyes to read, on going back an forth stretching to reply to this, effects my eye focus.
What I can say is this. On 1 specific trial I sat, a Civil Trial, had it not been for my background and knowledge of internal combustion engines, along with knowledge of a few trade skills in construction? Those on this panel would not have understood the basis of this trial.
Example: You had new brakes installed on your car and had a National brake company install your new brakes.Your brakes fail and you total your car.
Would you blame the manufacturer like GM for the failure? Or would you be more likely to blame the National brake company that installed your new brakes?
On the panel on which I sat, most on the panel wanted to place blame on the last person that checked this machine and motor.
The fault did not lie with him because the person(company) that constructed the overall protection package, was negligent. This company did not put in the necessary protections, which were specifically needed, to prevent the exact tragedy that happened.
Were it not for my machine/construction, and internal combustion engine knowledge, the outcome and verdict of this case would have been the opposite, and wrong.
Some of the jurors not understanding that in construction, you do not blame a brick layer, if an electrical fire burns down the building before its Grand Opening. What happened had nothing to do with the masonry construction of this project.
And I am supposed to sit there and say nothing about the false evidence provided by the Defense in this trial? I wouldn't care what the instructions said.
They were written wrong if they excluded me talking, during deliberations to the other jurors, from my knowledge and background with internal combustion engines, and in general construction of large buildings.
Is this the same as this Maxwell case? Of course not, but! Will leave it at that.
hckynut🏒
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