Just When You Think You Heard it All!!
Legislation August 29th. 2008, 9:32amThe Seattle Times is reporting today that a Lane County, Oregon presiding judge sent out the sheriff to the streets to round up jurors for three pending cases. The court had an unusually large number of criminal trials, along with an unusually high number of no-shows for jury duty forcing the extraordinary action. Washington law provides for the selection of additional jurors, but it isn’t as broad as the Oregon statute.