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GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 days agoI 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
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.
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.