F no !
I live in CA and hardly ever come across anyone who was born in the USA. Maybe they had to do this in order to have juries at all.
Perhaps amusement parks and cruise ships will start to offer their foreign tourists ‘US jury duty’ excursions.
“You’ve all seen the OJ trial on TV! Experience it yourselves in the same courtroom!”
Hell no
Why is it impossible to find who voted for this?
Funny that I correctly guessed this was California before even reading down that far. Damn, I’m glad I left that place!
California, lol.
I was called for possible jury duty yesterday. I went and watched the process unfold. Half the prospective jurors being considered could barely speak English. They had difficulty understanding the judges questions (he spoke very clearly) and could barely formulate a response in English. One of them made it clear he didn’t even understand our role as jurors to decide guilt or innocence.
Really, it was a nightmare and I kept thinking I would not want my fate to be in the hands of people who are barely educated, can barely understand the discussion in the courtroom, and have little in common with my American frame of reference. One prospective juror had lived here 30 years and still spoke very broken English with a very heavy accent.
Welcome to California.