[from occupied ga]

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

1. paid juries the same daily rate that the judge received, and
2. 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.

[ontap]

You do realize we have to pay that!

[ArrogantBustard]

1) I agree with you that juries are grotesquely underpaid.

2) When I had a severe schedule conflict with a jury summons, I had no trouble at all getting it delayed; the bureaucrat was quite cooperative in finding an alternative date that fit my schedule. I’ll note that I was polite and prompt in addressing the matter. Common decency goes a long way in preventing pointless conflict.