Jury Duty

AprilK-AEBN · 02-20-2008

What pisses me off the most about being called for jury, is you have to be there or you go to jail. That doesnt seem very fair to me, thats basically sending an innocent person to jail. My time is worth more than $12.00. By the time I bought some food and coffee for the day since I had to be there at 8:00 morning till 5:00 p.m. You could say I only earned $5.00 sitting there all day. To top it off, they are going to mail me a check for the $12.00, thats even more stupid. So now instead of handing cash right there to us, now they have to get an evenlope, print a check, pay for postage to send it out to us. More money wasted by the tax payers.

For the 30 people they called into each court room for jury duty only 10-12 were picked to become jurors. So I sat there all day to listen to the same questions over and over and NEVER got called to the jurors box. I felt like I was in jail as a juror, you couldnt leave the room unless you were called to the court room. Then you were lead in a single file line to the court room by a sheriff. You were allowed a few breaks and had to report back at a certain time. You could not leave until the end of the day when you were dismissed or you would be fined and jailed. I should have a right to choose wether I want to do jury duty or not. This traffic case should of never made it to a court room like this with jurors honestly.

Yes some innocent people do slip through the cracks, but you got to ask yourself do you really know how innocent that person is? Besides a person can be innocent and the jury will still find that person guilty. I think the whole justice system has alot of cracks in it anyways. We have alot of crooked cops and judges etc out there. The people on the jury, how do you know some of them arent crooked? It could be they happen to give the right answer to the lawyer when asked.

02-20-2008	#6
AprilK-AEBN Washing Bishop's Dogs Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 221	Re: Jury Duty What pisses me off the most about being called for jury, is you have to be there or you go to jail. That doesnt seem very fair to me, thats basically sending an innocent person to jail. My time is worth more than $12.00. By the time I bought some food and coffee for the day since I had to be there at 8:00 morning till 5:00 p.m. You could say I only earned $5.00 sitting there all day. To top it off, they are going to mail me a check for the $12.00, thats even more stupid. So now instead of handing cash right there to us, now they have to get an evenlope, print a check, pay for postage to send it out to us. More money wasted by the tax payers. For the 30 people they called into each court room for jury duty only 10-12 were picked to become jurors. So I sat there all day to listen to the same questions over and over and NEVER got called to the jurors box. I felt like I was in jail as a juror, you couldnt leave the room unless you were called to the court room. Then you were lead in a single file line to the court room by a sheriff. You were allowed a few breaks and had to report back at a certain time. You could not leave until the end of the day when you were dismissed or you would be fined and jailed. I should have a right to choose wether I want to do jury duty or not. This traffic case should of never made it to a court room like this with jurors honestly. Yes some innocent people do slip through the cracks, but you got to ask yourself do you really know how innocent that person is? Besides a person can be innocent and the jury will still find that person guilty. I think the whole justice system has alot of cracks in it anyways. We have alot of crooked cops and judges etc out there. The people on the jury, how do you know some of them arent crooked? It could be they happen to give the right answer to the lawyer when asked. __________________ ICQ-295828662