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Educated and principled people are generally excluded from juries during voir dire because they are less susceptible to attorney's arguments.



The exception to that rule is when you have a couple slam dunk where your forced to go to trial because a prosecutor refuses 2 dismiss the case or offer an appropriate plea bargain. Its almost an insurance against their pervasiveness




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