Rift Over Jury Duty Shows Trust Still An Issue (attempt to discourage Christians from voting?)

The News & Advance ^ | 27 Nov 2011 | Alicia Petska

[Wage Slave]

...“The latter scenario would amount to corruption in the jury selection process according to the Attorney General’s office,” Corry wrote. “We hope that there was no attempt to discourage Liberty students from registering locally by selecting more of them to serve on juries than the general population and it remains a serious question in our minds.”

[Wage Slave]

Liberty University wonders if the liberal weasels in Lynchburg city government have sent students more than their fair share of jury duty notices to discourage them from registering to vote.

Jerry Falwell Jr. tells one of the weasels to man up.

Hard to excerpt because the article was frontloaded with so much anti-Liberty University bias.

[bboop]

Maybe they just wanted good citizens who could think clearly on the juries.

[pepsionice]

I moved to Virginia about two years ago. One of the first things that I was told...was that if you registered to vote...you had a pretty high possibility of getting called into for jury duty. One of the guys who lives down in Richmond has been called in for jury duty on three occasions in five years (he ended up being dismissed on each of the three occasions). The explanation that most of the guys give...is that Virginia has a heck of a lot of cases that pop up requiring a jury.

The comical side of this is that my dad (down in Alabama) has been begging to serve on a jury for over sixty years and he never gets invited.

I don’t a problem with this Liberty University issue...unless you get put up on a grand jury and forced to sit out of classes for days and weeks at a time. Personally, I’d think a judge would realize the unfairness of some kid putting down lots of money for an education and trying to force them to attend jury duty.

[Dr. Sivana]

Further putting LU on the defensive in this matter were suggestions — sometimes inferred and sometimes stated flat-out — that the school might be deliberately withholding jury-related mail from its students.

I cannot take seriously a newspaper that does not know the proper use of the word infer.

[Abby4116]

I have a problem with college students registering to vote where they attend college rather than their home district. Their home residence is used to determine in-state/out-of-state tuition so why not use the same criteria for voting. Absentee ballots seem fine for the military - why not for students?

For the most part, the students are not taxpayers in their school district but with their votes, the local homeowners are often out-voted and are forced to carry whatever tax burden the candidates chosen by the students choose to impose.

I am not thinking particularly of Liberty but rather the large liberal colleges whose population can often overwhelm the local population.

[Vaquero]

my agorophobic Mother in law never registered to vote, nor got a state ID card from motor vehicles department (never learned to drive either)....

so....

...she got a jury duty subpoena anyway.

as she backs liberal democrats, I am not upset.

btw as she is the sole caretaker for my alzheimer Father in Law....she was given a pass anyway...

[Wage Slave]

Liberty is questioning the proportion of jury duty notices that went to students compared to their ratio in the rest of the population.

Lynchburg voters helped defeat Bert Dodson to flip the Virginia Senate away from the Rats. Bert Dodson is the darling of the liberal weasels.

[Graybeard58]

I cannot take seriously a newspaper that does not know the proper use of the word infer.

A very common occurrence, right here at F.R. I suppose people may think it sounds more "intellectual" than, imply or implied.

[trebb]

Since I became a Mississippi resident and registered to vote (retired here from military), I’ve been called about every other year. % or 6 calls and served on one which was actually a rewarding experience. Got to see why we’re in so much trouble - a open/shut case of assault with a deadly weapon and half the jury had to be browbeaten to do their duty because they were oh so afraid the poor perp would go to jail....

[muir_redwoods]

I’ve been summoned about ten times. In CT the jury pool is made up of voters, motor vehicle records and tax rolls. It’s an attempt to try to get everyone but somehow they keep getting me

[elcid1970]

Liberal gubmintcrats harass conservative citizens and do so safely and anonymously. What else is new?

When I was in the Army I criticised our unit’s policy of holding promotion & awards formations followed immediately by urinalysis lockdown (with family members present). Went to the first sergeant and the commander. Guess whose name got called for the ol’ p-test for months afterward? Random selection by SSN, of course. Yes, I see an analogy with the Lynchburg jury process.

FWIW, when my name comes up for jury duty I report wearing coat & necktie and state my name and occupation (miltech & warrant officer). Always selected by prosecution, always excused by defense. Inconvenience: one morning out of the whole jury week.

[Darren McCarty]

I've never been called to jury duty. In Michigan, they use drivers licenses instead of voter rolls.

I doubt I'd get past Voir Dire. Attorney often don't want attorneys as jurors.