Putting this in the corral despite my desire for it not to get political.
In the 12 cases I’ve tried to a jury (all civil), I’ve never once sat a lawyer. But my cases tend to be large company v. company battles in the $100M+ range.
So, question for the criminal law folks on here - is sitting a lawyer on your jury somewhat common? Or more common than my zero percent at least? I would think the prosecution would want to strike lawyers from service, but I don’t really know the criminal law world at all. Just seemed very odd to me to have not 1, but 2 lawyers (big law attorneys at that) out of 7 jurors already. One’s a litigator at Hunton Andrews Kurth and one is a corporate attorney from Gunderson.
In the 12 cases I’ve tried to a jury (all civil), I’ve never once sat a lawyer. But my cases tend to be large company v. company battles in the $100M+ range.
So, question for the criminal law folks on here - is sitting a lawyer on your jury somewhat common? Or more common than my zero percent at least? I would think the prosecution would want to strike lawyers from service, but I don’t really know the criminal law world at all. Just seemed very odd to me to have not 1, but 2 lawyers (big law attorneys at that) out of 7 jurors already. One’s a litigator at Hunton Andrews Kurth and one is a corporate attorney from Gunderson.
