Posted on 03/19/2006 9:50:18 AM PST by eeevil conservative
I wouldn't want my jury to be filled with people with a 7th grade education.....
Our courts are going ot the toilet because we have Toilet Trolls on the juries!
It is our CIVIL DUTY to serve.
PING!
HAPPY RESEARCH AND READING!
bttt
It used to be very easy to "escape" jury duty in New Jersey until recently. Now, it's very difficult to be excused and I imagine that's a good thing.
later read
bttt
Great stuff here eeevil!
danke shon....
I have always been rejected from jury during the selection due to truthfull answers in the screening process, its a joke how prosecuters hand pick jurrors
lawyers on BOTH sides WANT people with a 7th grade education...
AMAZING, eh?
They prosecutors tend to look for DUmocrats and Independents for jury duty....if you registered as a Republican, chances are you won't be called.
well that explains it!
I have NEVER been called....EVER!
GREAT POST!
When the Constitution was written it was accepted that the law reverted back to the community when a jury was impaneled. That, after all, is what a grand jury is all about.
The same went for trial juries. The accepted form was the the jury would judge both the law and the facts under the guidance, but not the mandate, of the judge. I have researched an instance where a grand jury was dismissed and, believing a judge to be corrupt kept right on meeting. The governor of the state upon reading this "dismissed" jury's recommendation then attempted to talk the judge into resigning. After awhile the judge was removed by force. The governor--a true upper-crust Federalist--then allowed what was essentially a "sham" prosecution of those removing the judge and when it was all over pardoned the leaders of the action.
A lot has been written on how jury rights were eroded near the beginning of the 19th century. You might want to check Amar's book: "The Biography of the Constitution" and look up his citations on this.
McVey
WOW!
Thanks for that info!!
will have to check out that book!
Most DUmocrats and Independents are "squishy" when it comes to cases in law....easily manipulated by lawyer speak. Republicans are more cemented in their beliefs and know when a lawyer is blowing smoke. If you have a brain, you WON'T be called!
The last jury panel I was on, I got tossed because it turned out my ex-wife had clerked for the prosecutor.
Wanted to make certain I gave you the correct citation.
It is Akhil Reed Amar, "America's Consitution: A Biography" (New York: Random House, 2005). It is an interesting read in and of itself. You need to dig into the footnotes on juries to find his sources.
Best,
McVey
Now that's interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, but I never heard of anyone checking into such a thing.
I've been called 4 times, but never served - I never make the cut. Seems I have this "problem" with crime and punishment - you do the crime, I like to do the punishment!
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