I bet you're proud to pay your taxes too. Oh I don't know. If you do then obviously some one has to serve on juries. People who serve don't have to like it they do it because they realize some one has to. I would not say I'm proud to pay my taxes I try to avoid all that I legally can but I do pay them. I don't go out of my way to get on a jury but if I do I serve. Some one has to do both these things.
My problem with juries is the uncompensated involuntary servitude associated with them. Judges get from $140,000 a year and up. Prosecutors are well paid by the taxpayers, but jurists are forced under threat of imprisonment to work for $30 a day. If you
- paid juries the same daily rate that the judge received, and
- let jury members set the schedules of what day(s) they wanted to work just like any other member of the justice system
I'd have a lot fewer problems with the system. As it is jury members are treated more like criminals than other participants in the justice system.