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Article #154Re: How Can I Avoid Jury Duty in Oakland?
From: Sharx.
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:59
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:59
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"Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message news:756bd789.0208201200.a5f06a1@posting.google.com... > "Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<WMi69.42359$Z5.1457390@news1.telusplanet.net>... > > > > > What's with you? There are RIGHTS and there are RESPONSIBILITIES. > > I definitely agree. The problem is that your whole philosophy seems > to rest on the assumption that a person's first responsibility is to > serve the state, not to serve himself and his own family first. > > What's sad to me is that governments generally offer such a pittance > for payment that it has to force, at gunpoint, unwilling people to > serve on a jury. I say why not have full time, professional jurors? > A juror is much more effective if he WANTS to do the job, not when > he's forced to. Judges serve voluntarily, and there's no reason why > the same should not apply to jurors. Yes, now you are hitting the nail on the head. In all too many jurisdictions, including the lower courts where I live in Canada, a mere pittance is paid jurors or WITNESSES, I may add. Even parking charges can add up to be onerous. Up here, in the higher courts, e.g. Court of Queen's Bench, I was flown to another city, as a Crown witness, taxis paid, meals etc etc..
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107518,49e347cf0e6b9d88 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: f6c48,49e347cf0e6b9d88 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6c48,public X-Google-Thread: 11582c,49e347cf0e6b9d88 X-Google-Attributes: gid11582c,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,49e347cf0e6b9d88 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,49e347cf0e6b9d88 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-20 14:59:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!news2.telusplanet.net.POSTED!dd4d6137!not-for-mail From: "Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> Newsgroups: sbay.general,ba.general,ba.consumers,misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living References: <309e7c98.0208091319.2baa4b6b@posting.google.com> <756bd789.0208130246.bab8e16@posting.google.com> <WMi69.42359$Z5.1457390@news1.telusplanet.net> <756bd789.0208201200.a5f06a1@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: How Can I Avoid Jury Duty in Oakland? Lines: 30 Organization: Sharx. Council X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <yZy89.1879$Il4.600514@news2.telusplanet.net> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:59:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.59.89.103 X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 1029880798 142.59.89.103 (Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:59:58 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:59:58 MDT