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With the job market remaining stagnant, more unemployed New Yorkers are volunteering for jury duty. "People are calling up, saying, 'Look, I lost my job; now would be a good time for me to serve,'" Vincent Homenick, chief clerk of the jury division for Manhattan, told the Post. "Not that $40 will pay the bills, but it's something." The unemployed aren't the only New Yorkers eager to get into the courthouse — a group of seniors dubbed "junkies for justice" travel across the city to attend the most interesting trials. Legal enthusiasts like Benjamin Rosen, 95, would rather spend their days watching real life episodes of Matlock "than watching TV soaps or playing bridge," the paper notes. "There's tension in the air," said Rosen. "It's like seeing an action movie. I like to decipher what's lies and what's true. And the courtroom is very nice and air-conditioned in the summer."
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20 calls since May says the chief clerk for juries in Manhattan....a god damm tsumani of newsworthy inquiries
Just don't volunteer for jury duty Federal Court. You might end up on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial for six months.
The average now in finding a new job is about a year or two so six months in a Fed jury sounds cushy.
That's actually awesome. Whatever, call me a sucker for civics, but right on!
My father has encouraged me for years to attend mob trials. He insists they are the best show in town.
matlock reference bonus!
If you're on Unemployment, do they count your days on jury duty as days working?
Good question movi.
I think we need a national service work program like the WPA. I wish our government thought big and did something like that to improve the physical infrastructure, document out society, etc.
Could full-time, paid, professional juries be any worse than a jury of our "peers"? I think I'd rather have people who have proven in past cases that they can weigh the facts logically and do the job right rather than considering this some kind of interruption in their normal lives. There's no accountability for the amateurs we have right now. They can do whatever they want then go back to their regular lives in obscurity. Look at the Junior Gotti juror, not to mention the entire jury in the first OJ Simpson trial.
so that's why I haven't been called.
usually I get to serve like clockwork. not this time.