Just received my Jury Duty summons. If I were on trial, I would definitely want a good, intelligent group of my peers (i.e. other middle-aged parents and business owners, etc.) making the final call as to my guilt or innocence.
This fact makes me want to serve as a juror.
At the same time, I bristle at the “summons”, which is on their schedule, not mine, and I bristle at the fact that my business is going to lose a ton of money while I am detained and unable to run it.
If they’re only gonna pay minimum wage (40 bucks a day or whatever) for jurors, then they should only be entitled to minimum-wage level talent.
I found this article that was interesting about this subject:
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/abolish-jury-draft
What do you all think?
If it is worth of your attention, I appreciate your willingness to serve. However, the last time I went to jury duty, I was hoping I got the chance to get to stand for selection and tell them what a colossal waste of time the entire suit was, and that all the lawyers and judges that managed to let the tiny little issue go to trial should be summarily fired. I think I estimated out they cost the taxpayers 150k for a 3k trial or something. To me, this is like the old thousand dollar hammers.