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[*] posted on 12-24-2013 at 10:30 AM


The one time I got picked to be on a jury , I really enjoyed it!
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[*] posted on 12-24-2013 at 12:08 PM


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The one time I got picked to be on a jury , I really enjoyed it!


Me too.

About 20 years ago, I had the privilege to serve on a Federal Grand Jury at the Federal Building in downtown L.A. We met every Wednesday for a year. We reviewed and indicted all kinds of interesting cases - Russian Americans being extorted by the Russian mafia in L.A. (their favorite weapon to intimidate people was a bicycle chain), a well known Hispanic actor being blackmailed by a Latino gang, money laundering by the owner of a major L.A. professional sports team, price fixing on the international sugar trade in L.A., a bank robbery by a student at a well known local university who was on a full ride athletic scholarship (she used her father's red convertible Corvette as the getaway car (like that is inconspicuous!) the local fire department was conducting a control burn in the vacant lot next to the bank during the robbery and took down the license number as she sped away! Hey, she was on an athletic scholarship not an academic scholarship - give her a break here. She wanted the money to go on vacation to New York with her boyfriend.

At the same time, the O.J.Simpson trial was going on across the street at the Courthouse. Our jury room was on the 12th floor and during our breaks we could watch the comings and goings across the street.

The problem with good people refusing to serve jury duty is that you will get the kind of justice by those who are willing to serve. Perhaps if more people had answered the summons to the O.J. trial, we would have had a different outcome.

The legal/justice system in the US is cumbersome, flawed, arbitrary, and frustrating. But it is the best justice system in the world. I consider it a privilege and price of freedom to serve on a jury. I know, I know you can say that I can serve in your place. That's fine, but you will get my definition of what justice is which may differ from yours.
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