Grand Jury Service: An Empowering Experience

Serving on a grand jury is uniquely empowering experience and an extraordinary opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard. This orientation video, produced for the NYS Unified Court System, explains the history and process.

[qpsozoz]

They wanna pay me 40$ a day. ... That's ridiculous

[audreyepstein]

Well done, thank you for this well prepared short video.

[BeansonsBeans]

yeah its great until you find out they make you do it 2 days a week for 3 months and your work doesnt legally have to pay you for time out of office. Grand jury duty for me equals POOR

[USSitroom-oo]

We need more educational content like this

[thunderdeed]

Grand Jury service equals compensation for missed work . The total amount you miss in wages wile missing work. No exceptions.

[aslmad]

Our local grad jury was a joke with the bureau and attorneys talking to the jurors like they were stupid. Screw them. Civic duty my arse. They don’t give a shit our opinion.

[otilium]

❤thank you, that's so informative ❤

[oibal]

Am serving as a GJ as I type this. Very interesting and empowering.

[veronicahamed]

I had to go to grand jury duty. First thing I don’t feel comfortable making this decision. Since I don’t know much about the law. It would be unfair for me to make this decision. I believe we should have a choice to decide whether we want to serve or not.

[daveyork]

" A Grand Jury will indict a ham sandwich ". How often do they not deliver to a prosecutor everything that's pushed for? Is the Grand Jury testimony recorded and offered available to the accused & charged person researching their defence including how they might wish to plead? At least this is a check on prosecutorial discretion.

[ellew]

Lesley Stahl did a great presentation.

[gilval]

Sounds Scarey when they say the state or county VS who ever that person name is.

[noone]

I’m too dumb for this. Why am I selected to be summoned for grand jury. Are they gonna make me write. My hand writing is terrible. Is the judge gonna point fingers and make the jury talk. I stutter on my own words.

[brycehedstrom]

Grand jury system doesn't work for several reasons:
1) Grand juries are tools of prosecutors. There is no defense. Jurors hear so many cases they cannot think straight.
2) The overwhelming majority of grand jury decisions are indictments, unless a cop is involved, then the results flip.
3) Only 2 countries in the world still use the grand jury system. The USA is one, and only 23 states still use it. The only other country that still uses this outdated, lopsided and inefficient system is Liberia, one of the poorest in the world and with an average IQ of 67.

[RemoteControlProds]

Pretty fancy that you got one of 60 Minutes' top notch correspondents to host this presentation.

[nonamenoname]

To all Jury duty PEOPLE, , stop helping these higher level put our younger adults in the system, , , STOP judging by there evictions, , all they want is for us to pay the system, , STOP, , , , or else whenever it's your turn to be judged, , they will not have pity on your ASS.

[phyllisdrouin]

Citizens are government workers not We the people!

[rexmurder]

Unfortunately some got lost in translation

[nildabridgeman]

The guy in the first picture front row, is showing the Freemasons symbol.. what an absolute joke. No one holds they're hands that way unless they're in the masons 😅

[hillaryclinton]

research Jury Nullification. you do NOT know what it is, nor have you heard of it, nor do you even have a hint what it is called. (unless you want out of jury duty and want to get an entire panel dismissed) use it wisely, you obviously cant do as badly as judges and prosecutors.