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Heh, if you plead guilty does that mean the jury should be made of convicts?

but to the actual topic, "jury of your peers" is a legal term and not a logical term. It just means the people should live near you [1]. and not that if the town is say 99% black that the jury has any black members.

See also, does a "loaded gun" need to have any bullets in it (NO!) [2] [3].

[1]: https://www.nolo.com/dictionary/jury-of-one's-peers-term.htm... [2]: https://www.gjllp.com/news/new-york-s-definition-of-loaded-f... [3]: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/265.00



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