{"article":{"id":295625,"heading":"environment harmed by mandatory jury duty.","author":"Eric Matteson","created":"2017-08-15 17:58:00","modified":"2019-10-03 23:16:16","last_modified":"Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:16:16","article":"<p>Mandatory jury duty harms the environment<br>\r\n<\/p><table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"8\" cols=\"1\">\r\n<tr><td>\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\" cols=\"2\">\r\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\">\r\nProblems with mandatory jury duty\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td>\r\nMajority Rejected<br>\r\nAbout 2\/3 of drafted jurors are<br>\r\n<b>rejected<\/b> after having already<br>\r\ntraveled extremely far to a distant<br>\r\ncourthouse.<br>\r\nlink to <br>\r\n many are rejected.<br>\r\n<\/td><td>\r\nDistant courthouse<br>\r\nDrafted <br>\r\njurors are required to travel<br>\r\nvery far to <b>distant courthouses<\/b><br>\r\ninstead of the courthouse that is <br>\r\nclosest to where they live.<br>\r\nlink to<br>\r\n enormous distance traveled.<br>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\">\r\nDrafted jurors have to drive long distances to distant<br>\r\ncourthouses and that <b>driving<\/b> hurts the environment<br>\r\nby <b>polluting the air<\/b> and adding greenhouse gas and <br>\r\ncreating replacement gasoline often includes the use<br>\r\nof toxic <b>chemicals<\/b> that pollute <b>water.<\/b><br>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\">\r\nMandatory jury duty is responsible for a large portion of global warming.<br>\r\n Earth will eventually become extremely <b>HOT<\/b> if mandatory jury duty<br>\r\nis allowed to continue in the United States. ( About 250 degrees. )<br>\r\n\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td>\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\" cols=\"3\">\r\n<tr><td colspan=\"3\">\r\nAlternatives to mandatory jury duty\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td>\r\nALL VOLUNTEER<br>\r\nJURY SYSTEM<br>\r\nVolunteers choose a starting<br>\r\nweek and a courthouse even though<br>\r\nthey do not choose a specific room<br>\r\nor trial.<br>\r\nVolunteers will be able to reduce<br>\r\ndriving by choosing a courthouse<br>\r\nthat is closest to where they live.<br>\r\n<\/td><td>\r\nAutomatically<br>\r\nexcuse people<br>\r\nwho fail to show<br>\r\nup or reply to<br>\r\na summons\r\nSet the fine for ignoring a<br>\r\njury summons to zero.<br>\r\nPeople will not come if::<br>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>important work<\/li>\r\n<li>important school<\/li>\r\n<li><b>court too far away<\/b><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td><td>\r\nRepeal sixth<br>\r\nand seventh<br>\r\nconstitutional<br>\r\namendments.<br>\r\nSeveral Radio talk show <br>\r\nhosts have advocated <b>changing<br>\r\nthe U.S. Constitution to totally<br>\r\nabolish juries.<\/b><br>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"ericmatteson2001@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Driving to jury duty can be harmful to\r\nthe environment.","numcomment":6,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2017\/08\/295625.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":295706,"heading":"Link to enormous distance traveled needs help","article":"The link in the jury duty harms environment\r\narticle for\r\nlink to enormous distance traveled\r\nmight have expired.\r\nTry this additional link to\r\nhttp:\/\/forums.moneysavingexpert.com\/showthread.php?t=5375949\r\nand it should include a discussion of drafted jurors not\r\ngoing to the courthouse that is closest  to where they live.\r\nericmatteson2001@yahoo.com\r\n\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":295625,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2017-08-30 19:51:22","modified":"2017-08-30 19:51:22","fileurl":""},{"id":296025,"heading":"new list of articles shows increase in rate of global warming from mandatory jury duty","article":"The Court employees in charge of determining who gets summonned\r\nto which courthouse \r\nDO NOT BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING.\r\n In 1987 they required a 20 mile distance for drafted jurors.\r\nLater, in 2013, they began advocating a 50 mile distance to court\r\nfor drafted jurors.\r\n Global warming is increasing exponentially in response to this\r\nincrease in distance traveled by drafted jurors.\r\n.\r\nLink to 20 mile distance to court being required in 1987\r\nhttp:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/1987-04-30\/local\/me-2904_1_long-beach-court\r\n( potential environmental appeals court appeal grounds is that\r\nIf a black person chooses to live in a all white neighborhood they\r\nforfeit the right to summon black people to their jury.)\r\n.\r\nLink to 50 mile distance to court in 2013\r\nhttp:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=633451\r\n( it is unreasonable for the court to require jurors without cars to\r\nwalk more than 5 miles to jury duty )\r\n.\r\nAbolishing mandatory jury duty is the only solution to this problem.\r\nEarth WILL BURN if mandatory jury duty is not abolished extremely soon.\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":295625,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2017-11-18 20:17:09","modified":"2017-11-18 20:17:09","fileurl":""},{"id":296611,"heading":"Jury Duty is Pretty Brief","article":"It's a week or two. Maybe a month.\r\n\r\nCommuting to work, which may entail an even longer drive, probably does more harm, because it happens five days a week.","author":"johnk","parent_id":295625,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2018-04-07 03:42:13","modified":"2018-04-07 03:42:13","fileurl":""},{"id":297336,"heading":"reply to driving to work","article":"Proposition JJJ was recently duly passed by voters to\r\nmake it easier for developers to build more apartments\r\nnear where people work. Implementing proposition JJJ\r\nby building new apartment buildings near where people\r\nwork will partially reduce global warming.\r\n Additional reductions in driving from eliminating mandatory\r\njury duty will then provide a sufficient total reduction in\r\nglobal warming to enable life on Earth to be saved.\r\n Even the very small change of just setting the fine\r\nfor dodging jury duty to zero to automatically excuse\r\npeople who do not show up to jury duty will be enough to\r\nsolve the global warming problem.","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":295625,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2018-11-29 23:24:07","modified":"2018-11-29 23:24:07","fileurl":""},{"id":298446,"heading":"Jurors frequently travel far on mandatory jury duty system","article":"The link\r\nhttp:\/\/www.lacourt.org\/division\/jury\/JR0025.aspx\r\nis a reminder that:\r\n1 ) under mandatory jury duty jurors are usually\r\nsummoned to distant courthouses.\r\n.\r\n2 ) it is very difficult or even impossible to change to serve\r\nat a closer courthouse.\r\n.\r\nThis is a reminder that making jury duty voluntary where\r\njurors choose a COURTHOUSE and a starting week\r\n( but not a specific trial ! ) is the ONLY WAY to\r\ndefeat global warming!!\r\nTraveling to mandatory jury duty remains the biggest\r\ncause of global warming as long as jury duty\r\nremains mandatory. Everything else has already\r\nbeen worked on!!\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":295625,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2019-10-03 23:16:16","modified":"2019-10-03 23:16:16","fileurl":""}]}