Show I GOOD CITIZEN Jury Duty Chance for Front-Row View of U.S. Justice at Work a la taa third af or IS from tha booklet by American Heritage Foundation and ot an The second promise of a good I will serve on a jury when When you receive notice of Jury your first reaction may how can I get out of It interferes with your work or It's a lot of The pay is chicken Yet anyone who dodges responsibility or Jury duty digs his little away from the foundation of one of our country's broadest The obligation to serve on a jury Is the reverse side of the right of trial by When you sit In a jury box and look at the accused on the how can fail to but for the grace of go when listening to the two sides of a damage how can you fail to if I were In the same A jury of 12 open-minded men and a little cross section of the under is every man's protection against individual intolerance and JURY DUTY Is a chance to have a front-row view of how our demo- cratic Justice is You may have wondered why Justice moves so slowly and why so much expense is justified to sometimes minor From your seat i i i in the Jury I box you will I gain a new Jf- I Ua rules of evi-I I j 1 ob- I I and legal briefs and complicated as it gives time and opportunity for the slightest ray of possible innocence to shine out for the truth to prevail beyond the shadow of any reasonable Lack of familiarity may have given you a distorted view of courtroom and a fear or dislike of courts in Jury duty gives you a new insight into the reasons for the many happenings of the courtroom which cannot fall to send you home a better There are three kinds of juries on which you might be called to The grand jury's function is to hear complaints of the commission of an offense and to by aid of testimony presented by the district whether there are that first grounds for criminal It therefore solely in criminal a a IN A FEW states the grand Jury may be done away even in murder and the charges may thus be brought by the to avoid delays incident to grand jury A trial petit jury or common jury is used in all cases except when the accused elects to be tried by the court or is charged with only a It functions only after the grand Jury has returned an indictment against the Witnesses are presented both by the prosecuting officer in the behalf of the state or commonwealth and by the attorney for the THE PETIT or common jury is employed to civil except where the issue is one of such a nature that the case may be decided by the court without a The procedure is much the same as to a criminal except that the district or state's attorney has no connection with it Private and not the state or are the prosecutors to a civil except where the state has a civil as in a tax for A Jury is impaneled by the coroner to help decide facts surrounding death of one or more persons when there is cause to believe that death may have resulted from a criminal The coroner acts as presiding has the power to call witnesses and may place suspected persons under bond to await grand jury article la Chapter S at the booklet produced by tha American Heritage of the freedom A complete boak may be obtained by ta tha American Heritage 17 Baal New N. |