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Thread #164370   Message #3932229
Posted By: robomatic
20-Jun-18 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Ethics of Aspies on juries (Asperger's)
Subject: RE: Ethics of Aspies on juries (Asperger's)
Referenced with no vetting, Scottish Jury which appears to be an essay from a book about legal issues from 1999. It says there is no voir dire such as we know it (selection of jurors).

There is a current American television series based on a highly paid expert who assists lawyers with jury selection as a means of controlling the trial mostly by defendants who can afford him. The show is called "Bull".

I've worked with someone who was clearly 'on the spectrum'. The person was extremely competent in a technical sense, utterly unemotional, and capable of dealing with other professionals, including freeing themselves from an onorous officemate. I'd probably welcome that person on a jury if I depended on someone interpreting fact from fiction.