One of the most distinctive features of Anglo-American jurisprudence is the jury. As one attorney has observed.

"When people go to lawyers to handle their cases. they assume that they will end up in a courtroom where a jury of peers will decide their fate. . .. They expect to be able to explain to their fellow citizens why they acted as they did and to gain an understanding and sympathy for actions that were deliberate or negli. gent. and even for actions that were strange. drunken or bizarre. . .. Even clients whose causes seems hopeless. with the facts clearly against them. often combine distrust of the judicial

system with a naive faith that they can win before a jury of people like themselves." (Ginger [1984], p. 5).