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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT |
It is random. In Ohio people who are registered to vote are
eligible to be selected for jury duty. My wife never
registered, so she has never been called. I've served twice
and love it. Criminals are not allowed to vote, so they are
automatically excluded from jury pools.
The first selection of people are from your county. Where I
live that gives you about 200,000 people for the computer to
work with. The computer program supposedly eliminates from
the selection criteria those that have served recently, so
now were down to about 150,000.
Every two weeks some lucky number of us get a postcard
telling us we've won the jury lotto. When I served it
looked like 400 or so were brought in for all of the courts
to work with.
After that the clerk read out our names to be part of a jury
pool. That seemed random because not all of our names began
with an "A". When we got to the court room the judge
provided basic information, those with hardship cases could
be excused if he deemed them valid (note from doctor). Then
the attorney's started their questioning/eliminating. We
had 12 jurors and 1 alternate in all the cases I served on.
Plan on 2 weeks of service. Call the night before to see if
you need to show up if you are not on a case, otherwise do
what you do.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 12:51 PM EDT |
for some value of 'random'.
The post just above this one is a fairly common jury selection process in most
states in the U.S.
There are very definate filters on the jury pools, but there is a large element
of randomness within any pool, as the current case shows.
If there is any strong bias it is AGAINST subject knowledge, as again this case
shows. There were two(?) people that probably were knowlegable about
programming, both were excluded from this jury.
Its my understanding that in Britian there is less opportunity for preemptive
challenges.
On the other hand in the U.S it still happens ocasionally, especially in smaller
towns, for the judge to send the Sherriff out to round up warm bodies to fill
out a jury panel. In some county seats when court is in session, its not smart
to be drinking coffee in the local diner around 9:30, cause that's when the
judge is going to realize half his jury pool are relatives of the defendant (and
will vote to convict no matter what the evidence; they after all KNOW the
defendant).
It all randoms out.
The medium sized miracle is how well the thing works, most of the time.
Not a lawyer
Been a juror
JG
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