Commentary The lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell are pressing for a retrial on the grounds that one of the jurors failed to reveal before selection for the jury that he had been sexually abused as a child by his step-brother and a friend. Of course, he should have answered the question truthfully: The problem is that he should never have been asked it in the first place, for to ask such questions is to undermine the very basis of the jury system. That system supposes that the average citizen, chosen at random, is capable of judging the guilt or innocence of an accused solely on the basis of the evidence presented in court. To do so is the purest example of attempted cognitive rationality. Indeed, the judge tells the jury that they’re to consider only what they see and hear in court, that they’re to put all other information, rumor, or …