professional jury??

Question

do you think the united states, being a free nation, should have professional jurys like they do in france? so many people in america dont like to be inconvenienced by jury duty, and some don't care about the cases and don't give honest verdicts.

Answer 1

no!... Defense would want a jury of peers....how would you make up a jury that spans economic class, gender, race, education...etc! how much would you pay ? at what point would the "pros" become bias?

Answer 2

The jury in France is not composed of professionals. There's no such job as "juror". The French social security system caters for the absence of a juror by compensating the juror and therefore eleviating the burden from the juror's employer but this doesn't make it professional.

The ASSEDIC is the French unemployment benefits program and allows French people who have worked in a job for more than 6 months to benefit from 75% of monthly salary of the unemployed party's previous position. This doesn't make the French "professionally unemployed" - it's called socialism and it will never happen in the United states because the majority of people running the USA at the moment confuse socialism with communism and the very thought of their having to share some of their stolen wealth has already led them to kill millions of innocent people so God forbid what might happen should the populus begin demanding social equality.

As specified in the Wikipedia article below (which is in French), the criteria for being randomly selected by one's "commune" (see, there's a scary word for American politicians.) are as follows :

You must be French
Over 23 years old.
You can read and write in French.
A person to whom french civic and family law is applicable.
Have never spent more than 6 months in prison.

An annual list is created and a selection of 40 jurors is reduced to ten for any given process.

The system is not much different than in America, only the State pays the juror's salary for however long the jury may take to reach a verdict.