The Importance Of Jury Service In Society

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When you think of the word “jury service”, most people think that it’s something unimportant. Something that should be optional and its violating our rights as a citizen. Jury service plays a huge role in the American system of justice. We are protecting our rights of not making injustice. Centuries before, African Americans and women weren’t allowed to vote. There was discrimination and inequality. Most people didn’t have the right to have an opinion about anything. Now we are all treated equal and our vote’s counts as a citizen regardless of your skin color or gender.
Jury service is extremely important to our democracy. It describes how connected we are as a society. Everybody is treated equal regardless of your race, class, culture, and religion. You’re known as a juror number and you will respond to the number you’re entailed to. There will be no labels of who you are outside the court. This sets equality to everyone; the twelve judges have the right to make their own decisions. They are entailed to the same argument, to the same witness and most importantly everyone gets an equal vote on the settlement.
You want to know what people outside the court have to say otherwise the court system would become corrupt. This is why our court system is one of the greatest in the world compared to other …show more content…

It is unjust because they didn’t have much evidence on Ronald but he was still found guilty. Jennifer picked him as her attacker in the photo line up and in the live line up. Afterwards, both of the ladies agreed that it was him on the second trail. When he was 16 years old he tried to rape a white girl as well. The only evidence they had at the trail was the flashlight, the white gloves and the rubber from his shoe. All the evidence pointed at him. The judges and everyone else was 100% positive that it was him, except for his family. His family knew that it was a huge misunderstanding but that someday there was going to be

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