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- Title
Selecting Jurors.
- Authors
Woodbury, Frank
- Abstract
The article focuses on the need an improved and practical method of selecting jurors from the mass of the voters of the U.S. A man of experience in the business of the courts is able to testify that many of the miscarriages of justice of which the public complains, are not due to the judges, but to the juries primarily, and result from this very fact, that incompetent, unfit men are drawn for jury duty. The method of selecting jurors in the state of Iowa is flagrantly open to the objection, that it makes no discrimination whatever as to the character and intelligence in the legal requirements as to competency for jury service. The number of men who can fill that qualification, and are yet inherently unfit for the task is very much greater than the average observer would think, and the problem that confronts the public today is by what method this evil shall be remedied. At each general election the judges of election in each voting precinct are required to return to the county auditor, along with the election returns, a list of persons equal in number to one-tenth of the population of the precinct.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JURORS; COURT personnel; JURY duty; LEGAL professions; COURTS
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1913, Vol 4, Issue 2, p284
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article