How were people in the 1960s chosen to do jury duty?
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It depends on where you live.  Here where I live it was from the tax roles and then that was changed to be from the voter registration lists.  That was altered to make sure that the intial panel selection was random.
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Probably in Government... Like before Lincoln And G.Washington, like Knights of the Round table???\n\nTry going to google and put a few words in reference to your question, to narrow down the 1000's of respondents, add or change wording to narrow down to see something that you may want to work with or through...\n\nGood Luck!
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It deals with the right of a citizen to have a trial decided by a jury of her peers.
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28 USC 1866 (g). There are also state laws that require jury service in state courts, i.e NRS 6.040.
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In a democracy, a trial by jury is important in that the accused must be found innocent or guilty of the charge by twelve people like himself/herself - rather than one judge. It's intent is to provide a greater justice for the accused.   Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn"t--but that is its intent..  In civil court (such as lawsuits in car accidents, etc) sometimes there are fewer than 12 jurors.
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Women were in 1920 nationally.  Although a few states started allowing it earlier.  Wyoming was actually the first to allow it.  Blacks were allowed to vote after of course, the civil war.
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The Orleans Parish website doesn't make much of an effort to answer the question, but the process is similar to the selection procedure used in neighboring counties, like Jefferson County, across the river.\n\nThe following passage is from the Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court's website (linked below):\n\nThe names of all licensed drivers and registered voters in Jefferson Parish are placed into the jury-management computer system operated by the clerk of court. The combined list is updated each year to account for address changes, name changes, additions, and deletions. The computer runs comparisons to eliminate duplicate names and then randomly selects the names of those who will be mailed questionnaires, upon request by the Jury Commission. \n\nThe questionnaire is designed to identify those citizens who are qualified to serve as jurors. The questionnaire also allows those who are entitled to a legal exemption to claim it, if they so wish. \n\nThe names of all qualified individuals are then entered into the computer's juror database, from which potential jurors are randomly selected and summoned for jury duty.
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since WWII, we've been drafted, but mostly NA's volunteer for the service.\n\n\nAs a side note, the first N.A. Miss America was on, from New Mexico....now we need one to run for Pres.
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A court system is mandated by the Jewish bible and therefore worked its way into much of civilization.\n\nAs I understand it the jury system is taken from one of the nordic countries and is a very recent development. Originally the judge played the part of the ejudicator, and still may if a jury trial is not selected.
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1.  usually about $25.00 for the day\n2.  Usually one day, unless you get selected for a trial\n3.  if you are incapacitated or mentally ill or some handicaps \n4.  I think the mentally ill are automatically disqualified, mentally handicapped\n\nTry this website:  http://www.jud.state.ct.us/faq/jury.html
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State and federal statutory laws or rules of procedure.\n\nIn a criminal case, federal law and most states' laws provide for a 12-member jury.  The Supreme Court, however, has held that a state could provide that you can be convicted by a vote of 9 out of 12 jurors; this is not unconstitutional.  (Johnson v. Louisiana (1972) 406 U.S. 356, 359 [92 S.Ct. 1620, 32 L.Ed.2d 152].)  It has also held that a state could provide that you can be convicted by a vote of 6 out of 6 jurors.  (Williams v. Florida (1970) 399 U.S. 78 [90 S.Ct. 1893, 26 L.Ed.2d 446].)\n\nIt follows that a jury as small as six must be okay in a civil case.  Accordingly, in a federal civil case, you may have as few as six jurors.  Some states have likewise set a minimum somewhere below 12, or have allowed nonunanimous verdicts (e.g., in California, you get 12 jurors, but you can win by a 9-to-3 vote).
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in some states a jury can have less than twelve members\nmany people are simply happy enough to collaborate with the authorities to feel important that they will sit on juries and help convict people on very questionable evidence\nit happens all the time
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According to this it is 1969:\n\nhttp://www.kiosk-korner.co.uk/kiosk06.html
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I've never been called to be on a jury.\n\nMost people I've talked to who have been called to a jury have stated that it was just a waste of their time.\n\nThe concept of a jury is a good one, though, and the purpose it serves is valuable. Having a jury could mean the difference in civil suits where a plaintiff does or does not get the relief they seek. Juries in criminal cases are required since so much of the criminal law has to do with "what was reasonable" and other intangibles that should be left for the "every day man or woman to decide."\n\nTorts cases (and, boy, are there a lot) benefit from juries because the elements of "reasonableness" are present. \n\nJuries, in theory, protect the innocent from being prosecuted unfairly and help to insure that plaintiffs who had been wronged get the damages they are seeking. Juries, however, aren't perfect because they are so often comprised of un-educated people who often let their biases get in the way of justice (only 1/4 of America's adult population is undergraduate college-educated; less than 10% of the adult population has some sort of graduate or professional schooling).
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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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I think it was during the 60s.
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Every six months the Clerk of Court will send out a minimum of 600 names informing citizens that they have been selected for Jury Duty for a 6 month period.  When a case comes up in the courts that a jury is needed, the Clerk of Courts will send out a number of letters... for a very well publicized murder case, 120 jurors may be called to report to the Court House for duty... and of those 120 jurors the attorneys have the right to challenge each and every juror.  For Civil cases there may only be 60 or 30 jurors called to report to the Court House for a Civil Trial.  \n\nThere are two sizes of juries...  for most trial cases there is a 12 person jury... and some clients may opt to have a 6 person jury... or they may opt to have the Judge render the verdict...  But yes, for a Criminal trial there is a large number of jurors called to report for jury duty.