Cops Kidnapping Random People Off the Street, Forcing them to Be Jurors

[KamaAina]

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-randomly-pick-people-street-force-serve-jury/

According to multiple recent media reports, Eau Claire County police officers were sent out onto the street to select people at random and forcibly take them in for jury duty.

Ironically, after these people were threatened and had their day wasted, the judge in the case decided that the jury was unfit and dismissed all of them!

“We did talk about cases like this where a number of people have to go out and get people summoned to the jury,” Eau Claire County Sherriff Ron Cramer told reporters.

Susan Schaffer, Eau Claire County Clerk of Courts was the official who gave the orders, saying that the Wisconsin Statute on “Insufficient Jurors” allows them to forcibly pull people off the street to serve in juries.

[Thinkingabout]

1. This is also true in Texas, if not enough jurors reports for duty they can go to the streets.

A person can also have a warrant issued if they ignore the summons or do not go at the time scheduled. Since there is the quick and speedy trials they could probably use this as an excuse to go to the streets.

[jen1980]

2. This is terrible

If you can't convict someone then let them go. Don't put innocent people in prison just because you can't plan.

[lpbk2713]

3. The Clerk's office isn't doing their job if they can't anticipate the need for jurors.

There's no excuse for them waiting until the need arises to summon jurors.