Remove some jurors.It is not surprising that the court system has trouble finding enough jurors and must threaten, fine and cajole (language) CAJOLE - (Chris And John's Own LanguagE) A dataflow language developed by Chris Hankin <clh@doc.ic.ac.uk> and John Sharp at Westfield College. ["The Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L. to get even a one-third response rate to jury summons ("Jury Pool Rises as Changes Take Hold, but Nearly Two-Thirds Remain Absent," Nov. 1). The judiciary insists that a jury--civil or criminal, major case or minor--must forever contain 12 people. Yet that number was inherited from the British at the time of the American Revolution American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. . Simply cutting the average jury size to nine would reduce the need for jurors by one-fourth. Cutting to eight would cut the need by one-third. Running trials in the evening for the convenience of jurors as opposed to that of court officials would also improve the yield. Imagine where our economy would be if businesses were staffed and operated according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the standards of 1776. Daniel J. B. Mitchell Ho-su Wu Professor UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Anderson Graduate School of Management and School of Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. Los Angeles |
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