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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 277733" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Part of my job is selecting juries and trying civil lawsuits. Without thoughtful intelligent citizens who are willing and able to do their civic duty, our justice system would collapse.</p><p></p><p>If you really can't sit on a criminal case, tell them and they can assign you to civil cases (car accidents, falls on sidewalks, etc). I can only be called for criminal cases with my background.</p><p></p><p>And, I disagree that all criminals are sick. Some are and I would hope that they would get help in or out of the criminal justice system. However, there are people that are just bad and evil or do bad things just because and they are not mentally ill. If you sit on a jury and believe that the defendant did what he did because of an underlying mental illness you can share that with your fellow jurors and vote your conscience. But to me it's shirking civic duty to go in and say for whatever reason that you can't/won't serve. In my cases, the biggest excuse I hear is the I don't understand English.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 277733, member: 3493"] Part of my job is selecting juries and trying civil lawsuits. Without thoughtful intelligent citizens who are willing and able to do their civic duty, our justice system would collapse. If you really can't sit on a criminal case, tell them and they can assign you to civil cases (car accidents, falls on sidewalks, etc). I can only be called for criminal cases with my background. And, I disagree that all criminals are sick. Some are and I would hope that they would get help in or out of the criminal justice system. However, there are people that are just bad and evil or do bad things just because and they are not mentally ill. If you sit on a jury and believe that the defendant did what he did because of an underlying mental illness you can share that with your fellow jurors and vote your conscience. But to me it's shirking civic duty to go in and say for whatever reason that you can't/won't serve. In my cases, the biggest excuse I hear is the I don't understand English. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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