Online Jury Problems

Online juries are a good idea for the government, because the government would save money. But, I doubt the defendant would get any benefit in short cases, but they might also get some benefit in long ones (more than a week). Yet, I do think there would be technical problems. Also, online jury might have numerous unintended consequences. For example,
Hackers could intercept your vote and then vote for you.
Are the people that wrote the online jury system code trustworthy?
The online jury system source code could be stolen and corrupted.
A juror could be persuaded by their family to vote a different way than if they weren’t there to persuade them.
It might be easier to bribe a juror
There might be more mistrials or the criteria for a mistrial might have to be changed.

Lawboy-

Should there be a way to do jury duty online? I think so and here is how I’d do it.

To be a juror, you would need to have a personal computer, netbook, or smart phone. You go a website at a designated time, say 8:00 AM. Then, you enter a user name and password that has been sent to you via the mail or by automated voice message to your phone. Once connected, you can watch the lawyers, witness, and judge through a webcam that has been loaned to you if you don’t already have one that is compatible with jury duty online system. The same loan arrangement can be made for a PC. The loan costs can be deducted from your jury pay.
Why bother? Because of all the time and cost savings. You don’t have to go to the court house, you can be a juror from your own house. It less stressful, so you can focus on the case and not what your wearing or how your family is doing.
Lawboy-

Jury duty

I don’t know if I really could say that I think jury duty is a good or bad idea because you go all the way out there to the court house and then some of the people never even get picked. This could be because they are related to the defendant or plaintiff, have a bias one-way or another, or just maybe are too opinionated on some topic. For example, teachers probably don’t get picked much because they believe that you shouldn’t get away with anything, not even for chewing gum or teasing someone. So, teachers probably wouldn’t give someone the benefit of the doubt in a shooting case. For sure when I grow up and am an attorney I wouldn’t picked one to judge my clients.