LETTERS, FAXES & EMAIL: Sam Domenico and Sandra Johnson
Copyright (c) 1997, The Denver Post Corporation

No fair trials

Would Miles Cortez (Colorado Bar Association president)
really have the court system weed out all potential jurors
who don't agree with a bad law, such as slavery, alcohol or
drug prohibition?

This would deny a defendant any chance at a fair trial.
It seems as if he would be happy with allknowing judges
deciding everyone's fate; in that case, what is the point
of having any jurors at all?
SANDRA JOHNSON,
Chairwoman Libertarian Party of Colorado
Fort Garland

Laws misstated In his March 29 letter, Kriho mocked law, Miles
Cortez castigates Laura Kriho for her behavior in her jury
case. He misstates the very foundations of American law.

As any law professor tells his shinyfaced students,
America has a system of law, not of justice. It is not the
duty of jurors to determine all of the facts in the case.
If that were true, credible evidence would never be
excluded. It is the juror's job to decide which lawyer has
managed to suppress the most derogatory facts.

And the jury selection process is not designed to ferret
out jurors who have preconceived biases and prejudices,
but is designed to allow both parties to the farce to
attempt to load the panel with uninformed and easily swayed
pawns that will support their own case.

The only bright spot in our legal system is that it is
so rotten that even the participants are beginning to smell
the decomposition. I would recommend that anyone
considering serving on a jury contemplate the recent
products of the process in Los Angeles and Simi Valley.
SAM DOMENICO Lakewood