Excerpt from The Classical Journal, 1921-1922, Vol. 17 Writers are generally agreed on the subject of the personnel of the American jury. Due to a number of reasons, the average jury, they feel, is composed of individuals of mediocre ability and mentality, who regard it as no great inconvenience to devote their time to such service.' Statistics seem to show that busy pro fessional men and successful business men prefer to pay the fines imposed for refusal to serve rather than devote their time to jury duty.' It is entirely ...
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Excerpt from The Classical Journal, 1921-1922, Vol. 17 Writers are generally agreed on the subject of the personnel of the American jury. Due to a number of reasons, the average jury, they feel, is composed of individuals of mediocre ability and mentality, who regard it as no great inconvenience to devote their time to such service.' Statistics seem to show that busy pro fessional men and successful business men prefer to pay the fines imposed for refusal to serve rather than devote their time to jury duty.' It is entirely probable that men engaged in professions which carry with them exemption from jury service, such as teach ing, for example, avail themselves of this exemption not entirely because they are so devoted to their business, but because they as conservative and law-abiding citizens are entirely satisfied with a vicarious acquaintance with the courts. The consequence is that jury service has grown to be practically a profession with a type of otherwise unemployed or at least indifi'erently employed individ uals.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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