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Meaning what? Jury's can decide complex issues if there is a neutral expert on complex topics?

If anything that sounds like a complaint about expert witnesses not juries.



A judge can appoint a special master for situations like this. For instance, Lawrence Lessig's role in the Microsoft antitrust trial. However, as far as I know, juries don't have the option of asking a special master's opinion, because there is a big risk juries would just defer to the special master instead of actually trying to judge the case.




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