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Message: [QUOTE="NYCSUGrad, post: 2325765, member: 971"] I'm a court clerk. I've sat in on hundreds of voir dires and yes, there's a reason why jury experts get the big bucks for high profile cases. And even then, they're only guessing the outcome, albeit with a good deal of intelligence. One time I served as a juror was very instructive. It was a NYPD officer suing the MTA for an injury during a blackout. The cop was so unlikable that it's a good thing in NYS civil jurors can be 5-1 because one woman hated him so much she gave him zero bucks. The rest of us gave him a little more than a million, which was much lower than he asked for, basically because the MTA had been extremely negligent in providing for equipment and whatnot during the blackout. But I know I WOULD have liked to have given him zero! [/QUOTE]