With jury selection for the Michael Jackson trial making headlines, the nation�s largest lawyers organization is focused on reinvigorating the jury system. The American Bar Association is considering recommendations to bring jury service into the new century and make it easier for the 5 million Americans who are called each year and the one million who end up serving on a jury. A-B-A President Robert Grey has made improving jury service a priority:
�Since jury service is fundamentally important to our democracy, we are proposing principles for modernizing American juries. Among them: protecting the jurors� privacy throughout the course of the trial and afterward. We also are proposing principles that respect their time and improve their participation.�
Grey appointed a special commission of former jurors, judges, lawyers and community leaders that has come up with nineteen �Principles for Juries and Jury Trials.� The A-B-A�s 546 member policy making body, the House of Delegates, is set to vote on those recommendations today during its midyear meeting in Salt Lake City.
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