Mjollnir wrote:They're hardly an objective jury though and thats what Hangemae says he wants, for the jururs only to take into accounts the evidence presented and not any other influences.
Sounds to me like you don't trust the jurors to ignore other influences (not that I blame you).
If that is the case, why would you trust the plaintif not to de-clan (for the duration of the trial) in order to gain a jury advantage. Or they could just get someone who is clanless to try the case for them.
Plaintifs already have an advantage in that they get to choose the time of the trial (mostly), why give them more advantages?
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Sabbit's problem was that his main goal was to disrupt PM hunts, and so the best time for him to sue was when the greatest number of PM were out of the library.
His plan was to sue "over and over and over", and so it was inevitable that he would lose a case eventually. My only surprise is that he wasn't prepared for that.
I agree that the minimum jury size should probably be a bit larger, but unless someone can come up with an easy way to restrict non-clan friends from a jury I don't see the point in restricting clanmates.