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Stark County Cutting Jurors' Pay

By Cleveland Law Library

Newsnet5.com reports that the Stark County Commissioners are suspending most of the payments jurors in Canton's Common Pleas Court would otherwise receive for answering the call to jury service. Budget crunches are everywhere, and now they are affecting the budget of the Common Pleas court, which will not be able to pay jurors for the first 10 days of their service, unless they are seated in a capital murder case. $22.50 per day is not a lot of compensation, but for the unemployed, or those whose employers do not pay  the difference, it can mean food for the table. The County's decision over the Court, which newsnet5.com notes is the 2nd one in recent history, raises issues of separation of powers.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).