Online juries are a good idea for the government, because the government would save money. But, I doubt the defendant would get any benefit in short cases, but they might also get some benefit in long ones (more than a week). Yet, I do think there would be technical problems. Also, online jury might have numerous unintended consequences. For example,
Hackers could intercept your vote and then vote for you.
Are the people that wrote the online jury system code trustworthy?
The online jury system source code could be stolen and corrupted.
A juror could be persuaded by their family to vote a different way than if they weren’t there to persuade them.
It might be easier to bribe a juror
There might be more mistrials or the criteria for a mistrial might have to be changed.
Lawboy-
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