Live Breaking News & Updates on Jury Trial Improvement Committee

In trial work, the obligation to seat a fair and representative jury often focuses on what happens in the courtroom, where potential panelists are selected or rejected to decide a case.
But what happens if a fair and representative slice of the community doesn’t get a jury summons in the first place?
That’s the question now under consideration at the San Diego federal court after a group of attorneys and legal experts have repeatedly pointed out discrepancies in the racial makeup of the local jury pool and the methods used to select them.
The San Diego court is the only one in California that singularly relies on voter registration records to fill the jury wheel, or the master list from which eligible people can be randomly drawn for service. ....

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