Odd Jury Instructions
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
Ah - I like the impartiality aspect here.
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
A directed verdict is defined as: an order from the judge presiding over a jury trial that one side or the other wins. Within the US, in a criminal case, a judge may only order a directed verdict for acquittal, for the ability to convict is reserved to the jury. Having said that, this did not happen in the US, it happened it Canada. I can understand the frustration of a judge looking at a case where the plaintiff has pleaded non-guilty, but admits to the charges. But... this is swiftly moving into 'Soapbox' territory...
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
Dan McCormick wrote:
What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions?
That's impossible to answer without actually being on said jury. However, the judge will do this if one of the parties failed to prove its case.
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
I'd say, come on, cut the PC crap and call it like it is: foreman! ;P and yes, I do get the original oops the judge made Marc
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
One way to guarantee a mistrial.
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What would you do if you were sitting on a jury and the judge gave you the following instructions? "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty." clickety[^] Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
To be clear to those who haven't read the article, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the verdict because of the instructions to the jury. In this case, the system worked as designed!
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