Our Sponsors
____________________
Note: Comments are moderated so be sure that your responses are expressed in a respectable and friendly way. We are here to express our thoughts toward controversial issues, not to scold or defame anyone. Watch what you say, and remember that by using this site, you agree to our Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy.
No, it's a total inconvenience. They just call you out and tell you that you have to go try out for a jury? That's ridiculous. It shouldn't be required, and it should be paid or volunteered.
It is paid (though sometimes not very much). A jury made up of volunteers is not a jury, it is a panel of judges. A jury requires local peers to serve in judgment of a case, not people who are clothed in the trappings of law.
There are lots of out clauses in the way juries are composed such that many people can serve only if they effectively choose to do so because of value they provide to communities in other occupations or that they would be adversely harmed economically to sit in prolonged judgment. Consider all the ways out of the thing and I don't think one on the outside would consider it "required".
Yes it should, if we want the benefits of being American citizens then we need to give back to society in any way possible to give our daily lives moving.
You can't get around it. You can't call up the judge and be like "Hey your honor. I'm a little tired today, I can't come in."
Eh, I don't know Sal.
True. But in most jurisdictions you can get out of it because of economic hardships or certain civic commitments.
Living in New York City, I find it relatively hard.
I think that would be NYC's fault then. Looks like it goes back about a decade because about 1 million people had exceptions, and this being NYC, used them. Going in the opposite direction with almost nobody exempted was a bit of an overreaction. Feel free to complain to someone in NYC government for more exemptions.
If it weren't mandatory, you only have the same people serving over and over again. There is no other way.
Those people are called "judges". Exactly the point.
I'm not sure why people are so afraid of this really. It is sensible to have some accounting of where a public service of this type accords a hardship to someone or the community at large by depriving someone of subsistence income, parental supervision, or some other vital community service other than jury duty (usually public safety), but otherwise what's the problem in the first place?
It is required, so I really do not know why you posted this question.
Jury pools are compiled from one or all of several sources – DMV lists, telephone books, voter registration lists, etc.
Back during my working days, I was called to jury duty and my suoervisor refused to give me the time off because our agency was so short handed (I was a cop at the time) so I showed up at the court in uniform. The strangest thing was that I was selected by both the prosecutor and the defense attorny even though I explained that I would be on duty and in full uniform during the three day trial. My fellow jurors elected me foreman.
The perp got convicted, not because I was a cop, but because he had the lamest excuse that I have ever heard and the worst lawyer in the entire universe! Yep, this guy was guilty.
Maybe he meant if it should be required or not papadawg.
I think it should, but you should definitely make it reasonable for people if they have serious commitments to go to.
Yeah, you may get paid a little but it should be for people who are willing to go not forced by the damn law with consequences against you if you don't show up. If they need people that bad they should make it an official job oh no wait they don't want to pay big bucks that's why the pay a little and force people out of their jobs, life to go.