Some are fair assessments in your post. I may not like them but can't disagree with validity of some.
Also, I found info in the link below quite interesting, as well.
This article was published in the Summer 2012 edition of the Oregon State Bar's Litigation Journal.
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* I don't know the writers source material but here is a snippet of the article. (Seems so much time wasted, imo)
Recent studies disclose that jury deliberation time is devoted to a discussion of the following issues in the following percentages of total deliberation time:
- 50 percent discussing general experiences;
- 35 percent discussing procedural issues;
- 8 percent discussing jury instructions; and
- 7 percent discussing perceived admissible evidence.
Great reference “Rawlinson (2012). They Don’t Think Like Lawyers. Miller Nash, Graham & Dunn.” Thank you,
@fred&edna! This piece puts in a nutshell what every high school graduate in “the land of the free and the home of the brave” should know about “inductive” versus “deductive” reasoning.
If you would please allow me, I would like to digress from the interpretation of the laws in general; and, visit briefly why are people seemingly with similar education or state or church or schools etc. making shockingly different assessment of facts?
Where are our contemporary high school kids to learn “inductive” versus “deductive” reasoning, in matters of laws? Should it be from google search?
Few years in the workforce in California, privileged with an Apple computer, a relatively new Mercedes Benz E320 my uncle gave me for “pennies” because he wanted to retire in the country side where the roads are not suitable for a sedan, and armed with the back then popular mindset of “Think different” (Apple computer slogan), I thought of myself as an educated young adult. Then, I was utterly shocked to realize that the newly immigrants from India, Iran, and Russia and elsewhere, coming to the USA on the H1B visa of the Clinton Administration, were way (may be 3 folds) ahead of me in terms of language, reasonings and mathematics.
We were about the same age, some of them have never seen an actual computer before, but … most of them have read, and continue passing to each other and reading from cover-to-cover, the computer programming textbooks I have read! That is when I gave up my illusory privileges; and, I went back to school to get my bachelor’s degree in 1995 in Mississippi.
After the fads of computer programming passed, several of these immigrants moved to economics, law, and corporate finance. Some of them earned a CPA or a Law degree, and became CEO, CFO, and legal counsel in some large corporations. Others got admitted to the State bars, such as in Florida where the rich retirees and the affluent immigrants reside. The Kawass sisters, DeCoste and Markus, and Saam Zangeneh remind me of my former acquaintances and coworkers. In fact, a couple of lawyers very similar to them, who are frequent posters at this very Websleuths forum, made me aware of this website.
Why is that important? Most of the entitled people such as I am stayed in the Information Technology for years. Some of us have chosen to come by, with less than third-world higher education level; sometimes climbing the socio-economic ladder by “knowing-who-knows what needs to be known” (aka networking); and, most of the times kissing-up (those like us who are ahead) and kicking-down (those who look different from us, who are behind). These are the ones who nag and display disdain in public as a way of contending with their change refractory fears.
If we want justice to be done for Dan Markel, and his family and former friends, we need prosecutors adaptable to societal changes rather than naggers who clinch status quo! If we want “the land of the free and the home of the brave” to stay on top of the World leadership in the future, it is time to teach in high school “inductive” versus “deductive” reasoning, not only in laws but in multiple facets of everyday life. And, above all, it is urgent to figure out how to teach our young people in high schools how to read and think; rather than googling everything and becoming upset when some words are not in their everyday lexicography.
. Thanks!
