I’m sitting here at the Torrance courthouse on jury duty.
Jury duty is always inconvenient to me, but going to prison and losing your liberty, or worse yet your life as a result of a death penalty case, is even more inconvenient. If people use excuses to get out of jury duty, they dishonor those who died for the rights of all people to serve on juries to insure that people get fair trials.
Many people know that Viola Liuzzo, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, amongst others, died for the right of people to vote. They also died for the right of everybody to serve on juries.
About Jan Tucker
State Director--California League of Latin American Citizens, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
I am personally looking forward to my first jury duty.