Essay On Jury Duty

Of the 318.9 million people that roam the streets in the United States about 32 million of them get summoned for jury duty each year. Of these 32 million very few know facts and have a basic knowledge about the jury process and what it entails. Theses Americans are trusted to decide a person's fate but don’t have any knowledge as to what is right and wrong. The current jury process is taking away from the validity of our jury system. How juries are chosen and what they execute while on trial doesn’t always benefit the person being tried.
All throughout the country there are juries that follow the same process to convict a person of a crime, but the process is question if it is reliable and benefitting the society. The process is the same for …show more content…
The OJ Simpson trial was one of the most talked about and most controversial trials to happen in the last decade because of the jury's decision. The OJ trial lasted from November through January in which time the 12 person trial containing “ten women and two men” listened to attorney after attorney and being separated from their families. The jury was heavily populated by women because in their opinion it was the best option for the case because The outcome of this trial lead to uprising all over the country that left the president to calm all of the people. The media had took this trial and made it one of the biggest things to happen, but for all the time that was up into it the debate for the judgment wasn’t very long. “Nine month trial in the new spotlight took just six hours to clear Simpson of murder” So wouldn’t this show that the jury was feed up with amount of time they spend on this case and were able to come to such a short conclusion in just six hours after hearing testimony for nine months doesn’t seem acceptable. The OJ Simpson trial sparked the biggest controversy on a jury decision in the last