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Uh-huh.
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yeah,
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but, I, yeah, I certainly wouldn't be, uh, uh, worried about that.
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I guess in terms of the, uh, you know, having a judge do it would seem to me to be more, more fair and and, uh unbiased.
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Oh, sure.
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Yeah,
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yeah.
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Uh, in terms of doing away with the, with the unanimous jury, I guess, I guess I, uh, would be a little more leery of that kind of a change in, in the trial system.
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That, that's just a, such a tradition that it's a, that it's got to be a unanimous jury that, uh, I don't know where you'd, where you'd draw the line anywhere else.
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Uh, you know, uh 2/3 or 3/4 or whatever.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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But, uh, and, and, I, I, I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with just a, just a bare majority.
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Exactly.
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Uh,
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Uh-huh,
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yeah.
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That's kind of how I, you know,
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in certain cases I can see them going, uh, uh, just basically with a judge, guilty or not guilty verdict uh, simply from a judge in highly publicized cases versus the small, uh, maybe, you did a crime that was, uh, burglary or whatever
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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and it goes into the court case or whatever
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and it's not highly publicized.
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But when you get into these highly publicized cases where everybody knows details whether it's through the NATIONAL ENQUIRER or whatever.
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Yeah,
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whatever.
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Yeah.
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Uh, it's the idea that person might initially have this thought, well, jeez this person's guilty no matter what.
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I'm not going to listen to the facts or and, and con their way into, uh, getting past the lawyers and getting through that.
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Yeah.
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But, uh, also there's aspect of cost
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and I, I'm not quite sure how much cost it does take for, uh, the judicial system to try and call a jury, whether it's very costly, or if it's something that's not costly or what.
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You know, being that I'm not in the, that area I really don't know.
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But I wonder if there is some big expense in trying to call a jury to trial and then having to pay whatever they have to pay if there's something that they have to pay.
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Yeah.
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I know companies have to pay for these people to be off from work.
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Or at least give them the time off from work.
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Yeah.
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Uh, whether it's,
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I think it's with pay.
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If I remember, jury duty is with pay.
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Well,
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And, and I'm,
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I'd,
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I know it is, I know it is where I, where I work.
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But, I'm not sure that that's, that that's necessarily required.
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Uh, you know, by law that it has to be paid.
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Paid, right.
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Uh, I suspect that's a, that's a benefit of a bigger company.
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But, but there are certainly some, Some that, some that wouldn't, uh,
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Uh-huh.
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Some that may decide not to.
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yeah,
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Well, I don't know if there's going to be solutions to the U S budget.
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Well, now it's in pretty disastrous shape for sure.
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Uh-huh.
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It's only getting worse exponentially it seems.
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Yes.
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Exactly.
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Um,
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There's, uh, maybe some short-term things that they can do
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and it hurts everybody's pocket, of course,
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but, um, I know that state has, uh, cutback, uh, raises for a year to help, uh, the, uh, state financial or whatever you might want to say to get better in a better condition.
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Uh-huh.
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That,
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Oh, which state is that?
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Uh, State of Minnesota.
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Uh-huh.
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So there's the potential that perhaps, you know, the U S budget might want to take a look at it's, uh, federal employees or, and take a look at saying, well, let's freeze wages.
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I mean everybody's doing it so it isn't like, uh, private business has had to do it
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Uh-huh.
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so it might have to be something that they might consider doing as a that's got to be very short term.
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Right.
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Right.
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And the only other avenue that I can think of is, uh, looking at where they're spending the money and not so much as saying, well, we're spending too much in that area as perhaps looking at what is costing them the money.
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As for, for instance, I think you probably remember the military getting caught, um, with toilet seats that cost them 400, 500 dollars.
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Yep.
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Right.
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And it was just,
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I mean you can go to K-Mart and buy them for, uh, 8 dollars or I think 6 dollars or whatever for toilet seats,
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Yeah.
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so.
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So it gives you idea that,
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Yeah.
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Definitely
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I think that there's probably a lot of waste in defense and in government funded research in the first place.
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Sure,
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sure.
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So,
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I mean there was, um, people at Stanford who were soaking the government, you know, using 1000000 of research money to, uh, for the President to buy beach homes or whatever it was.
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Uh-huh.
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Uh-huh.
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And I think that, that maybe more widespread than well, than we'd like to have think.
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Than we think.
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Sure.
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Sure.
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