See Anne Reed's "The City Jury And The Country Jury" at her always fine Deliberations: Tom Wolfe, NYC, state court juror Our firm faces this issue generally in some current civil proceedings; for years, we have noticed the irony (for us, anyway) that federal court juries are often more rural and less educated (not always but often) than juries in state courts.* Medium-size cities like San Diego, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh have that pattern: … [read post]