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    Quote Originally Posted by PDLM:
    Eh? In England&Wales the prosecution and defence counsel are allowed to challenge jurors during jury selection if they reasonably suspect them of being biassed or if they are known to anyone in the court.

    And in Hong Kong:
    Yes, that's true. But in some countries (America for example) the juries are picked by the defence and prosecution. They don't need any reason to strike a juror (although I think they are limited to the number of strikes they have).

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    My friend didn't get selected for dressing apropriately - A thirt showing "Wet-Tshirt Contest 1997, Swagman Hotel, Baguio", shots and sports shoes. If you are unshaven and with a hung over it helps.


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    I got called up in UK once for a case in Croydon Crown Court (Croydon!) and was told to make myself available for 2 weeks. The problem was that I was self-employed at the time and although you can claim expenses for Jury Service I was going to be seriously out of pocket.

    I wrote back to the Court explaining the position and was exempted. I never heard again. I believe in the UK you are allowed to decline if you are self-employed up to two times if you can prove loss of earnings. If you are employed obviously most (but not all) employers will still pay salary so it is not a problem and it could be very interesting. (It could also be very mundane tax fraud case). Jury service is best performed while awake. There have been a few cases that got stopped or where the judgement was appealed on the (spurious) grounds that a juror fell asleep. What about good old 'jury nobbling?' Don't hear much about that these days.


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    Therefore, as described by F16 above, can a defence counsel object to the selection of Jury Member A if this juror happens to be highly-educated and thus perceived by the counsel to be biased such that he/she is likely to vote guilty against a squatter accused of, let's say murder of an academic.

    Conversely, in the same case, can the prosecution object to the selection of Jury Member B if this juror has been selected from the low-income demographic and thus perceived by the prosecution to be biased such that he/she is likely to vote not-guilty against said squatter, because I don't know, he/she may consider the accused to be falsely-charged owing to his low-income background.

    Quote Originally Posted by PDLM:
    Eh? In England&Wales the prosecution and defence counsel are allowed to challenge jurors during jury selection if they reasonably suspect them of being biassed or if they are known to anyone in the court.

    And in Hong Kong:

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakermaker:
    Therefore, as described by F16 above, can a defence counsel object to the selection of Jury Member A if this juror happens to be highly-educated and thus perceived by the counsel to be biased such that he/she is likely to vote guilty against a squatter accused of, let's say murder of an academic.

    Conversely, in the same case, can the prosecution object to the selection of Jury Member B if this juror has been selected from the low-income demographic and thus perceived by the prosecution to be biased such that he/she is likely to vote not-guilty against said squatter, because I don't know, he/she may consider the accused to be falsely-charged owing to his low-income background.
    In England and Wales I don't think so and PDLM thinks that the same applies to HK too (which is logical) so I'd say no there too.

    I use America again as an example but the above scenario is exactly what happens. A random list of people is drawn up and the two sides strike down jurors for whatever reason they like. There are teams of specialists you can employ to help with jury selection.

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    Spike has a short write up about being called for jury service in Hong Kong.