Jury Service

[P.C.]

 The is from the 24 page Media Information Guide regarding the Pickton Trial from the Minsitry of the Attourney General

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 In British Columbia, jurors are paid on a sliding scale by regulation under the [FONT face="Times New Roman Italic,Times New Roman Italic"]Jury Act[/FONT]. They receive $20 a day for each of the first 10 days of the trial; $60 a day for the 11[FONT size=1]th [/FONT]to 49[FONT size=1]th [/FONT]days of the trial; and $100 a day for the 50[FONT size=1]th [/FONT]and each subsequent day of the trial. In addition, there are provisions contained in the [FONT face="Times New Roman Italic,Times New Roman Italic"]Employment Standards Act [/FONT]and [FONT face="Times New Roman Italic,Times New Roman Italic"]Employment Insurance Act [/FONT]that apply to persons selected to be on a jury.

 In British Columbia, juries are not normally sequestered during a trial. A jury may be sequestered for verdict deliberations once the presentation of evidence has concluded and jurors have received their final instructions from the Judge.

[Lise]

The longer you sit as a jury, I guess the more Raging Poodle you get. It still sucks though. I wouldn't want to listen to a case and then deliberate about the whole thing for eons.

  Thanks for the article, PC. That was quite insightful.

[kingy]

not that i would know but i think the worst part would be if you had to watch a video tape of something horrible, ala karla holmolka tapes.

[purelife]

The movie is probably very dreadful.

[Lise]

I would not want to sit for a high profile case like hers or the Picton one. *shudder*

[Russ]

When my mother did jury duty, she was home every night. Had to be there at 730 in the morning or something. When they finally went into deliberation they were sequestered and put into a hotel.

[Ally]

I got summoned once, but **didn't show**.  I figured that if anything happened I would pretend that I didn't get the summons.

  Nothing happened.

[Gopher]

I've not been summoned, but if I were I think I'd follow Ally's example. It's a subject I feel very uncomfortable about; I know it's not a case of actually passing judgement on  another person - but even so it doesn't fit into my 'scheme of things'.

[P.C.]

I wonder what frightens people so when it comes to the J word.  

People pass judgement every minute of every day.  Having GOOD judgement is what keeps us from harms way.  BAD judgement usually lands us in the middle of something undesiralbe.  You will use your judgement to decide if this post has any relevence to you or whether it is meaningless.  No harm done either way.