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Thousands called upon for jury duty,
only few complete service in San Diego
Though jury duty is an obligation as a Californian, many people
in San Diego County make excuses or dodge our system just to get out of jury service.
- In "A Look at California Juries," Daniel Klerman, law professor
at the University of Southern California, showed how troubled our system truly is.
- Findings show that in San Diego County out of the 800,000 people who were
summoned for jury duty nearly 30 percent asked to be excused.
- In California more than 8 million people were called to serve on a jury in 2000
– the most recent year for which court data is available – yet only an astonishing 27 percent completed their
service. The other 73 percent consisted of no-shows, disqualifications, excused participants and undeliverable
summonses.
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
©
2002 San
Diego County Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
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