I recently got summoned for jury duty (again) August 30 I hope to g-d I don't get called in because the last time I did it was not fun nor was it a pleasant experience. I will post about my experience in another post. In the mean time if you have ever been summoned to jury duty or know someone who has please read the following about the tyranny of this practice.
(exert) - There is a difference between “trial by jury” and “jury duty.” “Trial by jury” means that an accused person’s guilt or innocence is determined by a group of people not associated with the government, and “jury duty” means that unqualified people are forced against their will to serve as unpaid jurors—jury duty is just one of many possible ways to fulfill trial by jury. Our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution call for trial by jury, not jury duty, leaving it up to us the people to decide exactly what comprises a jury and how a jury should be formed, as long as we do not violate any other passages in our Declaration of Independence or in our Constitution. Our court’s practice of jury duty actually violates six distinct passages in our Declaration Of Independence, and six more distinct passages in our Constitution, not to mention seven more distinct statute laws, so when our court tells us that our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution stipulate jury duty they are flat out lying to us. Even our court’s insistence that a jury be “peers” to the defendant is never mentioned in our Declaration of Independence or in our Constitution, and has never been true of our juries anyway, since our first jurors had to be white male landowners, and even today jurors are limited to non-felons, but there is a way to have willing, paid, and qualified jurors who are also peers to dependents, and that is to limit our jurors’ service to part-time: As long as most of a juror’s income comes from some non-governmental job, then that juror can still be considered to be a peer to the defendant.
The problem with random selection also causes hardships on those without public or personal transportation, the need to leave a disabled person or child in the care of someone else (if they can find someone else) and have to pay out money to do so, if the summoned jury prospect has physical/mental/emotional disorders that the jury selectors do not consider to be significant or if that person has to pay to have their physician/psychiatrist make an appointment to write an explanatory excuse letter, or if the potential juror will lose pay (while employers know it is unethical to fire or deny pay for jury service, many get away with it anyway) or lose money and potential clients due to having to close their business for an undetermined period of time. We also wish that juries no longer be sequestered as this is basically imprisonment away from their families and homes when they themselves have committed no crimes. Random jurors on the rolls for their period of service only have a few hours the night before of notice of when to report the next day, often not giving enough adequate time to make care giving, job coverage or transportation arrangements. Failure to report can result in heavy fines and/or jail time far in excess of what is perceived to be the crime of not reporting. Also, often judges can declare contempt of court with also heavy fines and/or jail time for potential and selected random jurors for what would be deemed by most as a very minor infraction if an infraction at all. Make jury service a paid part-time professional occupation for willing and able jurors, thus removing random selection of jurors from county rolls.
See the video below for more information.
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