9-Year Old Told to Report to Jury Duty
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 1:11PM How do we expand the pool of people for jury duty?
Let's start letting kids serve on a jury, and it happenend thisweek in Massachuesetts this week.
"I was like, 'What's a jury duty?'" Jacob Clark told the Cape Cod Times in response to his summons to appear in Orleans District Court in Massachusetts on April 18. Oh, I forgot to mention Clark is 9.
His thoughts immediately turned to thinking it could be a good excuse to miss a day of school.
His dad called the jury commission office to find out what happened. It turns out that someone apparently had typed 1982 for the Yarmouth third-grader's birth year instead of 2002.
The mistake was quickly corrected.
Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood says a child gets called for jury duty once or twice a year.
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