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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(ripping away from your jobs, and your income).
they should 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.
i also liked another countries method of jurors, having judges to determine the case and decide like a juror would instrad, because they know a layperson is going to be more biased regardless of how they are chosen in a juror pool.
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
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.
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.
No such think as your peers, jurys should be abolished entirely.
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.
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.
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). being called into the courthouse is rare though.
A) if you pay a wage only poor people will apply. Creating extreme bias.
B) People with an interest or background in the criminal system will be extremely biased. Police officers will apply and always swing guilty to make their jobs easier. While professional criminals will apply and swing not guilty to help their “friends”.
C) Having a single judge decide is the most biased. If a politician can be corrupt, why not a judge? We have judge only vertics in North America for child custody disputes. And they are an example of extreme bias towards the mother gaining custody.
The only way to avoid bias is picking multiple people who don’t want to be there and are blank slates for the lawyers to convince. That way you get an equal amount of bias for guilty and not guilty due to random chance.