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Podcast: Why anonymous juries are bad PDF Print E-mail

(Posted 7/16/2009 by Megan Rhyne)

Podcast on why VCOG's board of directors is opposed to a rule proposed by a Va. Supreme Court advisory committee that would use numbers instead of names for jurors in all criminal cases.
http://web.me.com/meganrhyne/Site_3/Podcast/Podcast.html

For a copy of the proposal, click here.

And for a recent editorial on more on why the idea's a bad one, see below.
 

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