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fungus@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Hank Fung) wrote in message news:<aj23fh$1qma$1@agate.berkeley.edu>...
> In article <7e922d36.0208091741.48f2ca0b@posting.google.com>,
> David Kaye <sfdavidkaye@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >It wasn't always this way.  In the early 1900s, jurors got between $1
> >and $4 a day, then considered a typical working class wage.  They had
> >no problem getting jurors.
> >
> >I say it's time to pay jurors a typical working class wage.
> >
> 
> On that respect, the Feds do better: $40 a day (which is about federal
> minimum wage ($5.15 an hour), and 31 cents a mile, which is about the
> same as actual Government workers get for their own travel (36.5 cents)).
> 
> I would tell the original poster to call them up and explain that you
> don't have a car, and have no access to transit. They might refer you
> to a closer courthouse, like Alameda. If you can pull off not knowing
> English, than that will work as well. A close relative, despite being
> a naturalized citizen, and thus presumably can speak enough English
> to function, gets off that way.
Just tell them that you plan to do what jurors should do anyway, which
is to hold the laws themselves up to Constitutional standards. Many
potential and actual jurors are honor bound to do this because they
previously took an oath to uphold the constitution, because of prior
military or gov't. service, etc.
 My personal view is that for criminal trials, and civil trials to
which the gov't. is a plaintiff, juries are an essential guarantor of
our rights and liberties. As such, jury service is a sacrifice that
the citizen should make to protect the rights of his fellow citizens.
Where the court system abuses juries are in some of these megabuck
civil trials, wherein everybody else in the trial process is making
boodles of money, and jurors are slaving away to serve the interests
of private businesses, not protecting human rights.-Tiberius