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Jury Duty Anyone? North Carolina County Finds Few Takers
By AP
The judges, deputies and clerks showed up for court, but one key element was missing: No one had invited any jurors.
The Winston- Salem
Journal reports that North Carolina's fourth- largest county failed to mail notices to the 1,700 or so prospective jurors needed to hear cases this week.
After no one showed up for jury duty Monday, Forsyth County officials made a plea through local television sta-
tion WXII for any volunteers willing to fulfill their civic duty.
But only 19 people
showed up Tuesday. One judge in the coun- ty of 370,000 resi- dents even sent deputies to a mall to seek volunteers, but found no other takers.
"We don't have enough jurors," Judge Stuart Albright said in court Tuesday afternoon before dismissing the few who had shown up.
New notices were sent asking hun- dreds of prospec- tive jurors to be there Thursday, while other trials were postponed until next week.
Normally, a county printing office makes the notices and sends them. That happens after a jury clerk deter- mines how many prospective pan-
elists are needed and uses a system to select them at random, Forsyth County Clerk of Court Susan Frye said in an email.
But this time, the notices weren't mailed because of an error by some- one in the county print shop, said Kirby Robinson, the county's prop- erty manager.
"It's an unfortunate thing, and we sin- cerely apologize to the people who were inconve- nienced," he told the newspaper.
Frye said this is the only time this kind of error has happened during her eight years as clerk of court. She said she's working with the county to ensure the mis- take "does not occur again."
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