[gte910h]

Why do you assume the Jury has no technical knowledge? Lawyers often seek engineers and technical minded people in voir dire for technical cases. Not subject matter experts, but a programmer or mechanical engineer has a high chance of being sought after by both sides.

[lawdawg]

you obviously didn't follow along during jury selection. Anyone with any software/engineering background was excused from the jury. The current jury has no technical knowledge whatsoever.

[gte910h]

Where did you see this? No, I didn't see that.

[dpifke]

A description of the selection process (by someone who was in the courtroom when the jury was selected) can be found here:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#U...

The judge specifically asked if anyone had software design experience; the two people who raised their hands were excused.

He later asked, "there are geeky types of people and people who are not into technology. If you are on a geeky end, could you raise your hand?" Noone raised their hand.

[coopdog]

Why on earth would he want non-geeks..

I understand there could be a bias, but on the other hand these people are making interpretations of the law that could have very large consequences for a long time. Self described non-geeks are going to have very little knowledge and potentially little care of those consequences

The judge should have filtered for bias in other ways