Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials."
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I’m glad my country keeps juror identity strictly confidential. The lawyers involved and even the judge do not know the names or anything else about the jurors in a given case.

That is done with the specific intention of preventing jury intimidation from criminals and their accomplices.

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