Get rid of the ‘jury slection’ process
You have a pool of them and you get your first 12 in line
Lawyers should be forced to serve, for free.
This could be a full time job, as long as you are not thrown off the pool for being a dumbass (and not doing your job)
Too much is spent picking your jury
You have a pool of them and you get your first 12 in line
Jury selection is necessary to ensure a fair trial (or at least some semblance of one).
Say you're white and driving through Detroit and run over a black pedestrian and get charged with manslaughter (maybe even with a hate-crime add-on). Do you still want your jury to be just the first twelve people in the pool at the Detroit courthouse? Who do you think will be in that jury box? Think you'll ever see freedom again?