Open juries part 2

This is a continuation of the previous blog. (I am increasingly seeing signs that jurors are using their phones to google information relevant to the trial they are sitting in.)

The new and important issues that will be raised by the open court room fall into two categories.

1) The current jury selection process is bad. Consequently, juries, to be effective, must be a metonymy (representation) of the society.  That requires that juries be truly random with no voir dire (jury screening) and that courts must carry on trials at different times of day so young people and self-employed people can serve on juries.

2) There will be entirely new techniques for getting information to a jury.  Referring to an earlier blog,  an eye witness who fears for his life, might put up a video on Youtube for a jury.  The same could be true for anyone who wants to get information to a jury.

I look forward to the debate about these issues.  Much of the detritus of the law dates from attempts at protection from the British overlords in our early American colonies and has little relevance to modern life.