California Jury System Lacks: Jurors!

California’s Jury Justice System Lacks Important Ingredient: Jurors

Though jury duty is an obligation as a Californian, many people make excuses or simply do not show for jury service.

In "A Look at California Juries," Daniel Klerman, law professor at the University of Southern California, showed how our system is truly troubled.

In California more than one-quarter of those who were properly summoned failed to appear. Because most counties do not enforce prosecution for those who do not show for jury duty, many Californians were encouraged to shirk jury duty altogether.

*Other represents undeliverable summonses, excused or disqualified participants and postponements.

Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse is a nonprofit, legal watchdog group whose mission is to educate consumers on the costs of lawsuit abuse in order to create a climate for common-sense legal reform, and serve as a watchdog group over those special interests who seek to abuse the system for financial gain at the expense of consumers.

For a copy of "A Look at California Juries" please call CALA at (619) 295-6059.

This page was last updated on 04/19/05