A Proposed Alternative to NRG Jury Selection
Over the weekend, I received a couple of comments on my last blog post wanting to know what my plan would be for getting jury trials back up and running. Those are fair comments. I try to suggest alternatives to plans I criticize, but I recognize that I don't always do so. When I was walking around NRG Arena and looking at how woefully insufficient it was for the purpose of picking a jury, I mentioned to one of the prosecutors there, Paul Fortenberry, that sometimes there just isn't a solution. Not having a solution doesn't reduce the urgency of the situation. As humans, it is our nature to be averse to the idea that there may not be a viable solution in a crisis. The negative reaction from criminal trial lawyers (and by that I mean both criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors) to the NRG Arena Plan is two-fold. The first being that nobody bothered to make any attempts to gather input from any of us before diving headfirst into the plan. I recognize that this is