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In reply to the discussion: If a juror feels he or she made the right decison, why hide? [View all]JimDandy
(7,318 posts)you better hope that the jury has no reason to vote out of prejudice, because of the cover that that anonymity gives them.
Secrecy anywhere in government is almost never a good thing. That's why we have public trials, with (supposedly) juries of our peers; legislatures and a congress that are required to make bills public and vote openly on them (yes, I know, those processes are corruptible); citizen initiative petitions with the signatories made public; and the docs, phone calls, emails etc, of our government workers are deemed public property.
If you think of jurors as essentially temporary government workers, then you should get why they must not remain anonymous, after a trial is over. Every citizen in Florida, and especially in Sanford, has a valid interest in knowing who the jurors were in the Zimmerman trial.