Law Practice
Mar. 18, 2020
End jury service now
Our state courts are needlessly endangering lives and risking spreading the coronavirus by continuing to require prospective jurors to report for jury duty. Postponing criminal trials means that some criminal defendants will be in custody for a longer period of time and for some it could compromise a speedy trial.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Our state courts are needlessly endangering lives and risking spreading the coronavirus by continuing to require prospective jurors to report for jury duty. Postponing criminal trials means that some criminal defendants will be in custody for a longer period of time and for some it could compromise a speedy trial. That should be of enormous concern, but the alternative of making prospective jurors come to court, which for many involve trips on public transportation, i...
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