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Bendyb3n t1_jb21oje wrote

Reply to comment by CGmoz in Jury duty experience in Worcester? by lcatlow

It’s truly an atrotious deal if it winds up being a lengthy trial, $50/day is a joke in 2023

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CGmoz t1_jb27j2f wrote

Believe it or not, most states pay less.

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Sabu_mark t1_jb3hd1q wrote

It's weird how the 13th Amendment bans all kinds of compulsory labor except as punishment for a crime, and they definitely could have added "except jury duty doesn't count" but they chose not to, and the amendment is written in plain unmistakable English instead of legalese, impossible to misunderstand, but literally every court in the country says "yeah but we're just gonna make jury duty compulsory anyway."

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