Would you like to maybe have some form of professional Jurors I mean . . like every year. . .a jury pool is made. .they serve that year. Spend a week in january learning how to not be an idiot and then when their time comes up . . they get called up to the bigs I think jurors need to be more informed and that is not something u can get in pretrial the selections is just as random as it is now. [of course we would up the penalty for jury tampering and allowing yourself to be tampered with] Rocket River
Would never happen, goes against the principles of The Constitution. Besides that, what would be the point, if they are only in the pool one year, how can they be professionals, its not that much of a difference from the current system.
the idea would start fine, but as time passes the jurors begin to know more and more about the system. then you would have non-lawyers acting like judges. i know what you are saying about the process being flawed. my wife is a ADA and she has come home several times grumbling that the "whole" story was unable to be told. that's what criminal law is though. a chess game that is won in voire dire, before the proceedings even start. she's actually told me there's no way I'd ever get picked because in her own words - "i'm too smart". i find that to be a very sad comment.
I voted no, but I would like to eliminate jury trials. I think we should have cases presided over by a panel of judges, like in the Supreme Court. The people deciding innocence and guilt should know the law, and not be swayed by fancy talk.
I can feel that . . . . I'm tired of people getting of on technicalities WHICH ARE NOT REAL TECHNICALITIES Just a dreamed up technicality that sounded good . . or better than the reality. Rocket River
I got random selected to be in a jury pool two years in a row, so I'm sort of a professional juror already. But first year, they brought us in and told us to go home after waiting for an hour, and the second notice was from the same county after I moved to a different county.
Cool idea on the panel of judges. It may be too expensive though unless it's mandated by legislation that they have to serve when called - for free. Kind of like the pro bono lawyers.
Fortunately, there is a little thing called the Constitution that guarantees your right to a jury trial. It doesn't prohibit "professional" or long term juries, and that could be a meritous idea.
That is why the founding fathers invented amendments, so we can change the constitution and allow for the elimination of jury trials.
