BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Kern County grand jury is actively recruiting volunteers to serve in 2026, offering community members a chance to act as watchdogs for local government operations. Tom ...

Retired judge Michael Harris says we should not reject reform, we should refine it. Christian Mole says the system is blighted by inefficiency I understand the main argument for reducing the number of ...

Jury service is a civic duty as important as voting, but receives far less attention from the everyday citizens who may be called to serve. For many people, jury service is nothing more than something ...

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Responding to proposals from Justice Secretary David Lammy to limit access to trial by jury, and reports that he described jury trials as “a peculiar way to run a public service”, Liberal Democrat ...

The United Kingdom’s justice secretary, David Lammy, is limiting people’s right to a trial by jury in England and Wales. Under proposals he outlined in parliament on Tuesday, only defendants accused ...

Ministers have been briefed on major curbs to the jury service which could see juries only used to decide on cases of murder, rape or manslaughter, Sky News understands. The move would see the ...

CHARLOTTE — Mecklenburg County officials are warning residents about a jury service scam involving fraudulent calls, texts, and emails threatening fines or arrest for missing jury duty. READ MORE: Yes ...

Jurors found former President Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former president to be convicted of a felony. The jurors reached a verdict in the late ...

Valerie P. Hans is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Civil Justice Research Initiative. Her research on juries has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, ...

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson gave a first-person, under-the-radar account of his experience responding to a jury-duty summons, according to a brief video published on YouTube by the state court ...

The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office and the city’s Circuit Court want to make sure residents know recently mailed notices about jury duty questionnaires are real and not a scam. According to the ...