The Independent
UK · 19 mins ago
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.Attorneys in St. 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. A spokesperson for Judge Ellen Creel declined to comment, citing the ongoing case. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said deputies rounded up 26 people in about an hour from around the courthouse and its immediate surroundings.A Louisiana judge asked deputies to recruit random potential jurors from the nearby courthouse this week whe
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