Let people "serve from home" electronically.
Haha, right. Most of those people will be multi-tasking - watching TV, napping, playing video games. Anything but minding the trial.
Not if they follow the same process my recently-completed online driver's safety course followed. Intersperse in the proceedings a question related to recent testimony and allow only 30 seconds to respond. Failure to correctly answer the question the first time would require the juror to view a video the testimony related to the question again. ..
I'm hearing many different ideas to re-vamp the jury system: Pay jurors more money; pay for their parking and lunches; don't have so many potential jurors show up at the same time; assign the juror to the closest court house; etc.
My idea to re-vamp the jury system is to offshore the jury work to India. I imagine some laws might need to be changed to do this, but it solves all/most of the problems mentioned in this thread. There are plenty of people in India that already are working in call centers--they know how to sit in front of a computer screen. They understand English, they have supervisors, they have awful jobs dealing with frustrated customers and it can't be too much fun for them to try to diagnose somebody's Dell.
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