i am doing a survey for my college course, to see how much society understands about the law, when asked to do jury service.
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For your survey, are you asking about murder in general or a specific crime? Homicide as apposed to manslaughter?
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give me the information needed for the survey
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The public will decide if you are good.
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I would like to see a law passed that eliminates the tie between voting and jury duty. I believe many low income Americans don't vote because jury duty would break them financially. This is unfortunate.
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im australian but my bro took a test for customs which was similar. they just want to make sure your not completely retarded.
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http://www.topsiteratings.com/paid-surveys.html?gclid=CLaz4_LW5oUCFUKaFQodWnHMtQ
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Um, really, the lawyers involved should have gone over this with you in advance.  \n\nBut since they haven't... basically, it will be exceedingly boring, although you might be nervous.  Everyone but the jury - if there is one - has been through this before.  You'll sit in the box and be asked questions pertinent to the case by one lawyer at a time.  The other lawyer may interject to make objections.  That's about it.  \n\nGood luck.
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I read them to see what kinds of questions are being asked (plus I am nosy).
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Generally, to ensure that the verdict is unanimous, both parties have the right to poll the jury, although in some jurisdictions, polling of the jury in a civil case is discretionary with the trial court.\n\n A defendant does not, however, have the right to cross-examine the jurors on their verdict, and there is no right to a poll of the jury regarding their method of reaching a verdict.\n\nThe requirement that a verdict be returned by the jury in open court is necessary to afford the parties an opportunity to poll the jury if required.  Jurors must be given an opportunity in open court to express their agreement or disagreement with the verdict. The mere reliance on verdict slips signed in the juryroom is inadequate.\n \nThe proper method to ascertain whether the verdict reflects the intent of the jurors is by a request to have the jury polled. Polling of the jury is the process whereby the trial judge asks each juror after the verdict is announced whether it is his or her verdict. The purpose of polling the jury is to determine if the verdict signed by the foreman is that of the individual jurors and not one that has been coerced or caused by mistake.  Polling is a procedure designed to test the numerical validity of a verdict at the time it is rendered.\n \nThe trial court has the obligation of fully examining those jurors whose statements indicate possible dissent from the verdict. If the polling reveals that the number of votes is insufficient to sustain a verdict, the judge may, in his discretion, order the jury to redeliberate, declare a mistrial, or grant a new trial.\n \nThe poll of each member of the jury on the question of whether the verdict rendered is the verdict of each juror represents the extent to which the court may go in inquiring of the jurors as to the method of reaching their verdict.\n \nThere is authority to the effect that the court may, in a proper case, have the jury repolled. Absent an expression of uncertainty as to the verdict by one or more of the jurors, however, no abuse of discretion is committed by refusing to poll the jury a second time.
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I was once asked for jury duty but was not selected.\nI would love to sit on a jury, especially if it is an interesting case.\nIt is a good way to find out how our legal system works or doesn't work.\nHowever, would not relish sitting in court for months on end.\nIn Canada, an employer cannot deduct pay if you have been picked as a juror.
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My God, youre an idiot. Trial by Jury means that you are not at the mercy of an impersonal judicial system, you have 12 your peers deciding on your fate. It's an imperfect system but the best one available to us. You shoudl treat your civic privilidges as a sacred duty, one many soldiers have died for to provide to you.\n\n Juries are selected form the roles of registered voters. Just dont vote anymore. With your lack of intelligence you shouldnt be allowed to vote anyway.\nWith your attitude, I sincerely hope you are mistakenly arrested someday and shot even though you did nothing wrong.
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It would help to know a little bit more about the assignment.  Any particular subject of civic mindedness?  Local, state, federal, or duty to fellow man, etc?
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Very simple process. A group of jurors (16 to 23) will sit in a room and be presented with the case. They will call you in, and a lawyer will ask you questions about what you know about the case. That's about it! Good luck!
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I was provoked to ask if I was answering this so you could complete your homework.
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Assuming that you yourself are in middle or high school, you could interview or survey your classmates to see how much they know about certain Middle Eastern issues. I think you should also maybe focus more on how much teenagers are misinformed rather than not caring.
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I WANT TO SEE HOW THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR CITIZEN SHIP... if it ever goes to that. I see people going through the process now. they have to memorize 50 questions about america.\n\nlets see the non-english speaking class beat that test.
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Don't worry I got a letter to be on jury duty while I was in JAIL!!! LOL So my mom sent the letter back and told them that. \n\nThe next year I got another one and went to it. It was for a DWI case, well I had 2 DWI's and of course they didn't pick me. \n\nJust because you get summoned to go doesn't mean your going to be on it. They summoned around 20-30 people on mine and only 8 or 12 actually was on the jury duty for the case. 8 I'm leaning toward. \n\nSo go and just say you agree with what the person did and you won't have to serve!!! :)