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83 Judicature 304 (1999-2000)
Reluctant Jurors: What Summons Responses Reveal about Jury Duty Attitudes

handle is hein.journals/judica83 and id is 306 raw text is: Sictant jur ALAN KING What summons responses reveal about jury duty attitudes t one time or another, most judicial districts have expe- rienced low yields from a jury call-in fact, typically only a minority of those summoned SUSAN CAROL LOSH is an associate professor of educational research at Florida State University. ADINA W. WASSERMAN is a legal consultant in Miami, Florida. MICHAEL A. WASSERMAN serves as an assistant public defender in the Elev- enth Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida. 304 Judicature Volume 83, Number 6 arrive to serve. Court responses to low yields have ranged from the rare but dramatic highway impress- ment, where bailiffs snatch qualified citizens off the streets, to the more common efforts of renovating jury rooms and improving courthouse ac- cessibility.1 Yet often these measures are taken without a real understand- ing of how court remedies can influ- ence jury participation. To gain such insight, it is important to study people who have tried to evade, ex- cuse, or postpone service, as well as those who come to serve. For further information, please contact Susan Carol Losh, Department of Educational Re- search, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4453 <slosh@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>. The authors thank Judge Thomas Bateman of the SecondJudicial Circuit of Florida for providing access to thejury assembly and for his commitment tojury service; Ms. Barbarah Hettich,Judicial Assis- tant, and Ms. Susan Wilson, Court Administrator, for providing information about Florida statutes, wheels, summons responses, and procedures; and Neil Betten, Robert Boatright,Jack Brigham, Erich B. Goode, Hiroshi Fukurai, Christian Meissner, Alice Robbin, Brian Vargas, and two JUDICATURE re- viewers for helpful suggestions. 1. See King, Juror Delinquency in Criminal Trials in America, 1797-1996, 94 MICH. L. REv. 2673-2751 (1996); and Willard, What is Wrong With American Juries and How to Fix it, 20 HARv. J.L. & PuB. POL'Y 483-88 (1997). May-June 2000

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