Ah, Jurors

There are two pillars on which our criminal justice system is based. One is the presumption of innocence, the other is the concept of only convicting someone after the state proves that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I've long believed that most jurors ignore or misunderstand one or both of those, which casts doubt on the whole process. From New Hampshire comes the story of a juror in a rape case who, days before trial started, blogged about how "he was frustrated to have to serve on a jury that would require him to spend time listening to defendants trying to prove they were innocent." Said defendants he referred to as "riff raff."

Hope you never get falsely accused of a crime, asshole.