As someone who is about to be vested with the infinite power of deciding groups of people's lives by our wonderful judicial system, I would like to expound a few facts of life which should be implemented into the American jury system.Imagine my surprise to see that Congress people are given several thousand dollars a day for pretending to work, but the lowly juror in America who is the power of God in life and death, freedom and prison, receives on their pay scale a few pennies for mileage and under 100 dollars for being stuck doing something they do not want to do.
The old adage is do you want to be judged by people too stupid or honest to get off a jury, can be added to, do you want to be judged by people who are furious in being offered pauper wages and being stuck on a jury they don't want to be on.
Lovely thought unless Lance Ito is your Judge and Marcia Clarke and some jungle lust is going on setting O J Simpson free. Not much cause for confidence in the accused only facing stupid, sometimes honest, but often angry peers.
I believe the correct way for the jury system in America is the tribunal of 3 judges in most cases, one appointed, one elected and one chosen by a lottery of people who want the job.
Wanting the job should be the reason for being on a jury, and just like donor cards offer up human cannibalism, a person on their driver's license or voting registration should have a check mark by their name to be part of a group to serve on jury duty.
All volunteer armies work and all volunteer juries will work.
I suggest that 6 jurors would be from this agreed to lottery and 6 would be appointed as jurors serving 4 years from the political pool.
America has a wondrous justice system in our communities in the elected sheriff, who protects Citizens from themselves, from others and from the federal and state government. This same system of elected jurors would be a wonderful mix of people serving who want to serve.
I have absolutely no interest in serving on juries nor in running for political office as that era of my interest is over. I sat at the District Attorney's table, made the Judge smile, court room attendees laugh and watched the wheel of justice crush sedate drunks and convict innocent people, because female jurors always convict on looks.
So I would rather have the same numbed minds which are in Congress playing upon the "look at me stage" and those who think winning the lottery is being chosen to decide people's lives.
I much prefer Festus Hagen's jury by Colt 45 as he was a fair man, and the American county system has many fair men whether US Marshals or elected Sheriff's and their deputies.
Of course none of these solutions matter to thousands of people stuck on jury duty who would rather be living their lives, earning a wage for that life, instead of being threatened by the justice system to comply and be paid slave wages.
selah.
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