I agree with this - I think that professional jurors should have a an Associates degree in criminal justice and/or paralegal. They should get paid a fair wage. They should have to travel so as to not become too cozy with prosecutors/defense lawyers and judges. You could have jurors that are a specialist in different types of crime which would make the lawyers have to work harder since they couldn’t just overwhelm the uneducated (in that area of the law). As you said it would get people that are wanting to participate to be part of it as well
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
they should eliminate the way jurors are selected, mostly because its poisoned fruit from the tree. because people are inconvenienced the moment they get the summons. and have a jury hiring selection instead, paid an actual wage of that state to be a juror, but have alot of them to prevent biases and its volunteering not “conscripted” by rotating between groups, because alot of retired people, or people who want to be on jurors never get CHOSEN. at the moment most jurors are biased asf in most cases, of the types they choose.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
they would be in a pool of jurors, and use a lottery system. alot of retired people, and non-retired want to be part of it, why not put them in a large pool. and then use the "general public as a backup.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, the state hiring you on temporarily for a case is much different than having professional jurors. Professional jury corruption would begin immediately (like any professional lifetime bureaucrat or politician.) Add the education requirements and you’ve eliminated the “Jury of your peers.”
Specialist witnesses are already a thing, and a thing often corrupted.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No such think as your peers, jurys should be abolished entirely.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
and peers can easily being fluenced mroe easily too, given the many high profile cases. even in the non-profiled ones, there are sitll extreme biases anyways.
osanna@lemmy.vg 2 days ago
I want to be a on a jury as I’m unemployed (disabled) and have a lot of free time. I also have a pretty big interest in criminal justice. I am in my forties. I have never been summoned to be a juror. Sucks.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
so far i have gotten almost every year since i started voting except early covid. and almost on cue everytime i have voted(like 6months later)