THE KILLER COMPUTER
Hartford residents would have been included in grand jury pools over the past three years if not for one small problem: The computer thought everyone in town was dead. Court workers seeking to explain why no Hartford residents had been included on juror lists for so long found that the city’s name had been listed in the wrong place on the computer records, forcing the “d” at the end of Hartford into the column used to describe the status of its prospects. “D” as in dead. So every time the name of a Hartford resident popped up for jury duty, the computer noted the person’s demise and declined to bother him or her with a juror questionnaire. That’s a twist: A JURY being sentenced to death. From The Hartford Courant
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