Jurors are as smart as you make them

We, the jury, are not stupid. We in the legal-services business cherish the jury system. Most of us contribute in some way to make it better. We work with state panels to rewrite pattern jury instructions, we fight to allow jurors to take notes and ask questions. We support informative, but not frivolous, voir dire. And so on. Thus, it follows that if we respect the jury system …