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Published: November 05, 2009 08:17 pm    print this story  

Serving on jury costs too much

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Editor:

While I have had the “privilege” of sitting on jury duty and listening to many comments, I decided to write in hopes that someone can take a look at the way jurors are chosen.

With the pathetic economy, and my seasonal construction job, I am missing out on a lot more money than the $10 a day plus mileage that I’m being compensated.

While I could have postponed it once, it would have hit the time that I would be back to work, so either way I am missing out on a paycheck for two weeks.

Surely with all of

the technology, retired/disabled/laid off individuals, those of us who are working should not be expected to serve. If you want to call me when I am laid off, that presents another problem. It interferes with my unemployment compensation as they consider me “not able to look for work” and I lose on that small amount as well.

Some companies pay their workers while they serve, mine does not. If you don’t work, for whatever reason, you aren’t paid.

I’m not opposed to serving on jury duty, but I’m certainly opposed to losing two paychecks!

Pete Jenkins

Georgetown

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