Jury duty is all part of the being a citizen of the United States. It is a constitutional duty. It is a right to be tried by a jury which means that you need people to serve on juries.
That is what I am doing today.
When you live in Washington DC, you serve on a lot of juries. It seems that every three years, I get called to jury service. D.C.’s trial system is pretty busy, given the relatively small number of people who live here, which means
the relatively few people who are eligible to serve on a jury (DC has a high percentage of folks who are not able to serve on a jury because either their official residence is somewhere else or they have spent some quality time in jail), get called all the time.
It was Athena who first summoned 12 citizens to a jury trial in Greek mythology. It was also the Greeks who promised jurors a day’s wages to sit in judgment of follow citizens. In DC today, if you get called to serve, you get paid 34 dollars a day. If you don’t get called, you get bucks. That will pay for a grande latte at Starbucks.
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