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What Are Your Jurors Reading?

Have you read The Shack?  I haven't, though it obviously has powerful themes of redemption and forgiveness.  What if your jurors have read The Shack, and you can't speak to them?From Malcom Gladwell's Outliers is this:Those three things?autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward?are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It?s whether our work fulfills us.Clearly people are looking for fulfilling work: Why else would anyone highlight this?Does a juror have autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward?  Could you give those three things to a jury?  If so, how?  What is the jury's reward for siding with your client?  "Doing the right thing" has as much visceral appeal as a low-sodium saltines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).