Judge recruits random courthouse visitors for jury duty after running out of potential jurors
- Facing a shortage of potential jurors, a Louisiana judge on Wednesday took the unusual move of recruiting random people who happened to be in or near her courthouse.
- Tammany Parish told Fox 8 they had scarcely ever seen something similar, and that the potential jurors tapped to be in the case weren’t pleased.
- “Those people who were dragged in to be jurors were extremely upset about it,” criminal defense attorney Roy Burns told the outlet.
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- Facing a shortage of potential jurors, a Louisiana judge on Wednesday took the unusual move of recruiting random people who happened to be in or near her courthouse.
- Tammany Parish told Fox 8 they had scarcely ever seen something similar, and that the potential jurors tapped to be in the case weren’t pleased.
- “Those people who were dragged in to be jurors were extremely upset about it,” criminal defense attorney Roy Burns told the outlet.
Sources: The Independent