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Repeal the Sixth and Seventh Amendments!

After what seemed like a lifetime of jury duty (but was really only two days), I've decided it's time to start flipping coins. One of my fellow jurors put it best: "After two hundred-odd years of this country, is this the fuckin' best we can do? Waste sixty persons' time for two days with a bunch of dumb questions? Pick 12 people and decide this thing, already!"

Of course, me and the two people with JD's were eventually peremptoried off. But couldn't they have decided they did not want any lawyers on the jury on Monday instead of making us come in to hear the inevitable on Tuesday?

Previous thoughts on why jurors should be paid available here.

Full post as published by Traditional Notions on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).