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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who pays her bills when she serves? Does the government pay the jury members?

Sry off topic.

Get a temp nanny.[/quote]

Q. What is the reimbursement for jury duty?

A. Jurors are paid $15 per day, plus validated parking for designated County garages. If you are impaneled on a petit jury for more than five days, starting on the sixth day, your juror payment will increase to $50 per day. Maryland law does not state that your employer has to pay you while you serve as a juror; however, the court will provide you with certification of attendance.[/quote]

Wow that is nothing. Are most jurors retirees then? Sry, I am not American I do not know much about this.

I am just wondering how you can sit there make a decision about someone's crime while you worry about your job or your finances you know.[/quote]

This is the downside to our jury system. Everyone can get called, but it is a hardship for a lot of people to serve.[/quote]

The worst part is that although retirees are the largest group who could afford to serve on juries, there's an automatic age exemption for anyone who is 70 or older.  While I understand that age brings issues which may make jury service more difficult (difficulty hearing/seeing, infirmity, etc.), senior citizens are also the people most able to miss events they had scheduled and anyone collecting Social Security and/or a pension has an income which is not affected by not working.[/quote]

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