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A LATTE BEFORE THE TRIAL, PLEASE.


There would be no judicial system without citizens willing to sit on a jury. So a movement began about three years ago to make the system more humane humane

pertaining to the avoidance of infliction of pain, discomfort and harassment; used especially with regard to animals.


humane considerations
 after data showed a decline in the public's respect for the judiciary and for institutions in general. Reformers view their goal as nothing less than a way to safeguard democracy itself. In New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Chief Judge Judith S Judith [Heb.,=Jewess], early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, and placed in the Apocrypha of Protestant Bibles. It recounts an attack on the Jews by an army led by Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar's general. . Kaye has appointed a team to transform the forbidding courts. So far, the group has helped reduce the amount of time jury selection takes, produced a Web site to educate court users, made a videotape videotape

Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical.
 on jury duty and insisted on quicker searches at the metal detectors. They have also cleaned up the bathrooms (added liquid soap) and made coffee and pastries easily available at the hallway cart.
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Title Annotation:jury duty
Publication:State Legislatures
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2001
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