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The ancient greeks used to choose their politicians via a method called "sortition", much like how potential jurors are selected today. And, like jury duty, it was seen as an inconvenience to those selected.
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In 2012 a 9-year-old Massachusetts boy was summoned for jury duty. He was encouraged to attend jury selection by his father who assured him "it's a day off from school and you get lunch".
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The jury selection process for the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting lasted three months and summonsed 9,000 candidates, making it the largest jury summons in U.S. history.
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In Winona Ryder's shoplifting trial, former Sony Studio boss Peter Guber was a potential juror. He said, "I have about as much chance of getting on this jury as the man in the moon. I only made three pictures with the lady." He was selected.
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The German Un-word of the year, a word selected by a jury of linguistic scholars considered to be the year's most offensive new or recently popularized term.
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In Athenian Democracy elections were not used to select officials as they were believed to be undemocratic and prone to corruption. Instead they used a lottery process known as Sortition to select representatives, similar to how juries are chosen today.
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Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil) used to assist in jury selections and was the inspiration for the TV show Bull.
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In Japan, not only is there no randomly selected juries in the court of law, but also that the conviction rate is 99%
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The Sparling Manual, a guide to jury selection for prosecutors written by Dallas prosecutor Jon Sparling in the 1960's. It advocated for striking women, Jews, overweight people and racial minorities from juries
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The "Zone of Death" in Yellowstone National Park, a 50 sq. mile area where murder is legal. A murderer can use a jury selection loophole to avoid standing trial for their crime due to the overlap in federal and state land claimed by Yellowstone.
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Shrek 2 was one of 19 films from around the world to compete for Best Picture at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Previous American winners included Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, and Pulp Fiction. The jury lead by Quentin Tarantino selected Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 as the eventual winner
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