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Should We Have Professional Jurors?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:48 am
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:48 am
Most intelligent people can get out of jury duty. Most attorneys want "malleable" jurors.
With a rapidly aging population (as well as a lot of educated people that simply can't find work in their fields) why don't we just have a rotating pool of professional jurors that take a course in basic courtroom procedure, get paid $20/hr and hear all the trials. Can't do it for more than a year to prevent any bias for particular attorneys or collusion or contamination among the jury pool.
I think it would be more efficient and True Crime housewives and retirees would eat that shite up like biscuits and gravy.
Think it would be a superior situation to what we have now? I know how juries were intended to work but intentions don't match the reality.
With a rapidly aging population (as well as a lot of educated people that simply can't find work in their fields) why don't we just have a rotating pool of professional jurors that take a course in basic courtroom procedure, get paid $20/hr and hear all the trials. Can't do it for more than a year to prevent any bias for particular attorneys or collusion or contamination among the jury pool.
I think it would be more efficient and True Crime housewives and retirees would eat that shite up like biscuits and gravy.
Think it would be a superior situation to what we have now? I know how juries were intended to work but intentions don't match the reality.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:52 am to PurpleandGold Motown
It’s bullshite when you have to take off from a high pressure job for this.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:01 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Man you wanna talk about corruption. Absolutely fricking not. People will be getting reached and bribed before they start. This is the issue with politicians as a career. Everyone should be in the pool and take turns. Congress and everyone else in politics should have quick term limits and get rid of this shite
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I read this and reflexively wanted to disagree but if I was in between jobs and wanted to occupy myself for a bit, a short stint of full time jury duty would be interesting.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:06 am to PurpleandGold Motown
no
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:23 am to PurpleandGold Motown
All it will do is simply open the door for corruption and back-door deals with attorneys, especially if the “professional” jurors are on a year-round government contract. That’s exactly why the current call-up system randomly picks ordinary people who have no connection to the legal world.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 1:27 am
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:50 am to JasonDBlaha
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All it will do is simply open the door for corruption and back-door deals with attorneys, especially if the “professional” jurors are on a year-round government contract. That’s exactly why the current call-up system randomly picks ordinary people who have no connection to the legal world.
Ok, so lets talk about mitigating the incursion of corruption in favor of more competence. We do that in every other aspect of our lives except the one that can literally....destroy our lives.
I've been on two juries. I'm pretty sure at least half the jury couldn't read and the rest had narcolepsy. It was me and one other dude each time like....wtf is even going on. And these were both property crimes--not even capital offenses or great bodily injury.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:17 am to PurpleandGold Motown
If you are innocent, you would want an educated professional jury. If you might be guilty, you want a jury of idiots.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:11 am to PurpleandGold Motown
You want the kind of people who run HOAs to be the only kind of people on juries?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:59 am to PurpleandGold Motown
A large number of American professionals think men can get pregnant and women can have dicks. They're often times more susceptible to prejudices and ideology than your average idiot.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
So they can get paid off???? Hell no. But there should be a mandatory minimum IQ for jurors.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:11 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Have you been a juror before?
The bribery would be unreal
The bribery would be unreal
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:14 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I was tasked with jury duty once, but was stationed out of state so I was exempted.
They must have taken me out of the jury pool database because that was over 40 yrs ago and I've never been selected again.
They must have taken me out of the jury pool database because that was over 40 yrs ago and I've never been selected again.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:21 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I have advocated this for decades.
People who know the law, are impartial.
If you could remove potential corruption, absolutely.
"A jury of my peers" is a joke. If I am in the jury, on a case for a teen, not of my race or gender/sex, who has committed murder, pretty sure I am not their "peer".
People who know the law, are impartial.
If you could remove potential corruption, absolutely.
"A jury of my peers" is a joke. If I am in the jury, on a case for a teen, not of my race or gender/sex, who has committed murder, pretty sure I am not their "peer".
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:22 am to liz18lsu
They don't care. Jury nullification was preached every day on national TV during the OJ trial.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:24 am to PurpleandGold Motown
No
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:25 am to liz18lsu
Tony Soprano and the members of Local 235 Joint Fitters Union love this idea
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:31 am to Night Vision
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OJ trial
This TX ordeal is going to go down like the LA riots. It's a lose-lose situation. Two kids, hot-headed argument, and one gets murdered. Throw race in to the mix and everything becomes more volatile x's infinity.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:32 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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With a rapidly aging population (as well as a lot of educated people that simply can't find work in their fields) why don't we just have a rotating pool of professional jurors that take a course in basic courtroom procedure, get paid $20/hr and hear all the trials. Can't do it for more than a year to prevent any bias for particular attorneys or collusion or contamination among the jury pool.
I don't know how much the actual pay is, and wouldn't consider it "professional" or a job, but what you are suggesting sounds very similar to a Federal Grand Jury in scope and operation.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:37 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Kinda like the Supreme Court
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