jury duty? in college?

Dad_of_3
Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:16:27 +0000

It would be more reasonable if people who would be inconvenienced or suffer a lot are given a pass if requested. Someone who is self employed or whose employer doesn’t pay during jury duty, a student who can demonstrate he has classes, someone who doesn’t have any reasonable transportation to the court house - people like these ought to be excused if they ask for it. If the system doesn’t, I think morally/ethically they have the right to try to get out.

Also don’t understand why the compensation seems to be frozen at levels that is a joke - they don’t make the court assigned attorney work for 8 bucks a day; they don’t make the judge and court staff work out of the goodness of their hearts for the the betterment of society - it’s one thing for people like me for whom there is no financial hit but an inconvenience in accumulated work that can be treated as a responsibility to society, but it’s patently unfair to someone whose work is not only impacted, but they need to take a financial hit too.