DamnYankee
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also, only if you are registered to vote, do you get called for jury duty.
Not so here. DLs and other public info is used as a "trigger".
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also, only if you are registered to vote, do you get called for jury duty.
If they would make the the whole process less painful, more people would be willing to serve. Compensation for jury duty should be raised. People think of it as an intolerable chore they need to get out of.
I think it is people who work for a living try to get out of it. It shouldn't be an economic hardship, it should be a slight, but smile making economic windfall. A day off with reasonable pay, at least, and no consequences from your employer.
-Joe
and that was directed to whom? or just in general....how many companies allow you to turn in your juror's pay then pay you ..your regular pay?
One state at least that I looked at makes your employer pay you your hourly rate for up to two weeks, IIRC. It's Vermont or CT, can't remember which.
We get paid, but I work for a municipality so I suppose it's a quid pro quo type of thing. Only been called twice and actually chosen once, on a civil case. It was settled before a decision had to be made.
also, only if you are registered to vote, do you get called for jury duty.
Not so here. DLs and other public info is used as a "trigger".
Here in Waldo County it is not untypical for a juror (I think it's like $21 buck a day) to come out of the court to discover that they have parking tickets with fines which exceed their daily pay.
Meanwhile the judges and lawyers are making huge bucks.
Screw that.
We get $6 from the county. It costs $7 to park anywhere near the courthouse.
Jury duty should be voluntary, since we do pay taxes. The theory is sound, but it really doesn't make as much of a difference in sentencing anyway, and to make it an obligation just makes some people bitter. Making the employers pay for the time is just as bad as underpaying the jurors.
Most people called for jury duty, DO NOT SERVE their time and the government allows near every excuse to get out of this duty....if you need the money and can't miss work, is one that is acceptable, if you have an important meeting, it is acceptable etc...to not serve.
also, only if you are registered to vote, do you get called for jury duty.
One state at least that I looked at makes your employer pay you your hourly rate for up to two weeks, IIRC. It's Vermont or CT, can't remember which.
We get paid, but I work for a municipality so I suppose it's a quid pro quo type of thing. Only been called twice and actually chosen once, on a civil case. It was settled before a decision had to be made.
It's not quid pro quo... it is a union boss sitting across from management who is spending other people's money. We, The Peoples.
Nice score on the job!
-Joe
I'm insulted by that 5th grade remark. Some of us "Podunk redneck" "dumb ass hicks in the sticks" do not like the idea of giving up time to a corrupt legal system that won't even pay for the cost of the gas to drive into town.personally, I believe we should move to a professional jury system.
People trained in logic and legal procedure representing an unbiased cross section of the population would be better jurors than some Podunk redneck with a 5th grade education or a person who resents the fact that he has to take days weeks or months out of his life to sit on a jury.
The concern from my perspective would be is the "professional jury" made up of non-biased people? How would you be able to prevent "special interest groups" from infiltrating the system? Many judges to day are not there on the bench to insure justice. They were put there to insure they cover someone's ass.
someday i will figure out how jurors are selected...
O am offended that they pay jurors so little for that service, to be frank.
Jury duty sucks but I view it as a civic duty to do as a citizen when called to serve.
I don't. I consider it a control issue. The amount of taxes I pay more than covers my "civic duty", IMO. It's just more of the government intruding on your personal life.
Fortunately for me, I'm such a mean, redneck looking bastard I always make the first cut!
Jury duty sucks but I view it as a civic duty to do as a citizen when called to serve.
I don't. I consider it a control issue. The amount of taxes I pay more than covers my "civic duty", IMO. It's just more of the government intruding on your personal life.
Fortunately for me, I'm such a mean, redneck looking bastard I always make the first cut!
I would like to present several very good reasons for every citizen to serve on juries.
Thomas Jefferson said, "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
The power of the jury to judge the justice of the law and to hold laws invalid by a finding of "not guilty" for any law a juror felt was unjust or oppressive, dates back to the Magna Carta, in 1215.
John Adams said of the juror, "it is not only his right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
First Supreme Court Justice John Jay, instructed jurors that the jury has "a right to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy."
In 1895, the Supreme Court, under pressure from large corporations, rendered in a bitter split decision that courts no longer had to inform juries they had the power to veto an unjust law.
Despite the courts refusal to inform jurors of their historical veto power, jury nullification in liquor-law trials was a major contributing factor in ending alcohol prohibition. Today in some states, jurors often refuse to convict under the marijuana-prohibition laws.