Jury duty in usa is outdated system with so many problems why not remove it?

Question

compensation 40 dollar per day is too inadequet was decided long time back .should be atleast 100dollars now. also it should be voluntry

Answer 1

Also they should not be able to screen people and dismiss them if they know things about the law or other reasons they usually dismiss them for. Also too many get off due to having a medical release when they should not. Also too many very important people like Doctors themselves have to go be on jury duty and patient care suffers.  Also it is dangerous since jurors can be punished if they give the wrong verdict according to the defendant . Yep you are right

Answer 2

In Ireland employees of Jurers are forced by law to pay them their salary during their time on the bench and self employed people can use this as a reason to get out of jury duty.

Making it voluntary would be bad as only people with a grudge against something would sign up and would therefore be prejudiced so system wouldnt work

Answer 3

WELL THE COURT SYSTEM IS SO FAR BEHIND IN HISTORY,THEY THINK THEY ARE PAYING TO MUCH.IF it was voluntary no one

would sigh up.$40.00 Naw ,i wouldn't even show

up.

Answer 4

I don't agree is should be voluntary. I do agree $40 per day in not sufficient. It is our civic duty, and we want a jury by our peers not by paid volunteers who do it as a hobby.

Answer 5

First of all, to change the system in the USA would take an amendment to the Constitution - good luck with that.

However, I do believe that a more appropriate compensation system should be designed.

I have served on 3 juries in my lifetime, and I have never received anything near $40 per day.  Would have loved to see that!

Answer 6

Weasels tried to call me up for jury duty, but I got out of it. Lawyers don't like ex-cops as jurors.

Answer 7

I don't know who you would get if it was voluntary.

Someone once told me that I owed society my time on the jury. I told them that I have no problem serving on a jury, but while he was in college I was serving in Vietnam. I never feel an obligation to spend time on a jury to " fulfill my civic duty."