California Assembly approves bill allowing non-citizen immigrants to serve on juries

Sacramento Bee ^ | 04/26/2013

[SeekAndFind]

Non-citizen immigrants lawfully residing in California would be eligible for jury duty under a bill that cleared the Assembly on Thursday.

Current state law allows only United States citizens to serve on juries. However, the state Constitution does not restrict immigrants residing legally in California from being summoned. Assembly Bill 1401 would no longer exclude "lawfully present immigrants" from jury lists drawn in part by the Department of Motor Vehicles records. The bill was written by seven Democrats on the Assembly Judiciary Committee, including the chairman, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont.

[caww]

Looking like our whole nation is being taken over....

[Robert357]

This is going to get cute.

First, I can understand how a person accused of a crime or a civil offense would want a trail by their peers and since so many residents of California are not citizens, well, what could be more fair.

Second, since any jury pay has to be reported on your income taxes and since I am sure that ALL non-citizen legal residents of California have social security numbers (even if they belong to someone else) this should be no problem.

I also assume that jurors will not need to speak English and that translators will be made available to them?

This will be so interesting to watch as California turns into a third world province within a first world country.

[az_gila]

I don't remember getting a 1099 for jury pay in LA County - it was many years ago, and the “pay”level is so low I'm sure it's under a 1099 threshold.

From their web site

The amount, $15.00 and mileage of $0.34 a mile one-way beginning on the second day of service, is set by statute.

[Wurlitzer]

Somebody needs to check the water supply of blue states.

We citizens are daily being marginalized by the leftists.

A whole lot of public schooling goes into such a thought process.

[MHGinTN]

it is time for leftafornia to sink into the pacific ocean. They are no longer abiding by the Constitution of the US of A so they are no longer a legitimate member of the 50 states (No, little barry you sonofabitch, there are not 57 states in THIS Republic, but your Islamo Slime has 57 states).

[MHGinTN]

In TN, in the past when I’ve been called to Grand Jury duty, they picked from the voter registration lists and I had to show my TN driver’s license to go inside the holding room. But we’re in Tennessee, not on the left coast of islamerica.

[LouAvul]

Kalifornia. And if you're offended. I don't care.

It's an absolute sewer of a state.

[pterional]

The rule of law is dead in California. If your an illegal driving without insurance or a license they won't tow your car. If your a citizen with a job paying taxes and you have expired parking ticket you are towed. There is a disadvantage in being a citizen in California.

[Noob1999]

Well, this should provide lots more jobs for translators, one for each jurist of a non-English language.

[I Drive Too Fast]

If California sunk into the ocean then you could no longer post on FR. The servers are located in this state and so is Jim and a lot of conservative freepers.

[noinfringers2]

Question! Can/could a non citizen vote especially for a life or even death sentence for a true/valid citizen. If so the USA has certainly given away Constitutional rights as to peers, be a person innocent or guilty.

[Selene]

UNOFFICIAL BALLOT
MEASURE: AB 1401
AUTHOR: Committee on Judiciary
TOPIC: Jury duty: eligibility.
DATE: 04/25/2013
LOCATION: ASM. FLOOR
MOTION: AB 1401 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By WIECKOWSKI
(AYES 45. NOES 26.) (PASS)

AYES
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Alejo Ammiano Atkins Blumenfield
Bocanegra Bonilla Bonta Bradford
Brown Buchanan Ian Calderon Campos
Chau Chesbro Dickinson Eggman
Fong Frazier Garcia Gatto
Gomez Gordon Hall Roger Hernández
Holden Jones-Sawyer Levine Medina
Mitchell Mullin Muratsuchi Pan
Perea V. Manuel Pérez Quirk Rendon
Skinner Stone Ting Torres
Weber Wieckowski Williams Yamada
John A. Pérez

NOES
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Achadjian Allen Bigelow Chávez
Conway Dahle Donnelly Beth Gaines
Gorell Gray Grove Hagman
Harkey Jones Linder Logue
Maienschein Mansoor Melendez Morrell
Nestande Olsen Patterson Wagner
Waldron Wilk

ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING
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Bloom Cooley Daly Fox
Lowenthal Nazarian Quirk-Silva Salas
Vacancy

[I got the rope]

how much you wanna bet that illegals are in the assembly.

[gaijin]

This will HELP California...! Loooook into my eyez....!