The importance of a jury of our peers
Kerri Thoreson
Back in June, around the date of summer’s official start, I received a jury summons in the mail from Kootenai County. It had been a couple of decades since I was last called to serve. While I’ve always considered jury duty not to be a duty but a privilege of citizenship, I was like, “Seriously, July 22 to 26 in the middle of our too-short summer!” Why not in January, February or March when cabin fever has set in? But alas, the justice system functions 12 months out of the year, even on beautiful sunshiny summer days.
Jurors for District Court are selected from a pool of names of registered voters and driver’s license holders. There are 89,161 registered voters in Kootenai County so what are the odds that my good friend, Pam Houser, had also been summoned to jury duty the same week? We’ll never know if we’d have been selected for the same trial since notification that we were excused arrived via email and text this past Friday.
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